Rabbits And Hares.

[mikey4444]

This may seem a silly question, but ....

Rabbits and hares are so similar in appearance, so do they ever mate together, and if they do, are new hybrids thus formed ?

Like donkeys, horses and mules, that is ?

[maggiebee]

Can't give you a definitive answer, but would doubt it.

[boxtops]

I don't think so - they're not that similar?

[coccinelle]

No they are two different species (different DNA) so they don't interbreed. Hares live above the ground wheareas rabbits live in burrows.
A male donkey and a female horse can produce a mule but a female mule doesn't produce offspring, she's sterile. The male mule can't pregnate a donkey or a horse.

[josaphine32]

No, abit like breeding a cat with a tiger, or a mink and a polecat, harvest mouse and a field mouse, why do not there dna is different. I see where you are coming from, ie liger lion/tiger

[mikey4444]

Thanks everybody. I saw some hares this week and they were running about the place like they were possessed !

[boxtops]

Mad March Hares, a bit late because of the weather!

[RATTER15]

Kangaroo and sheep= wooly jumper?

[wildwood]

Not easily, but there appears to be some learned people who believe there have been/are hybrids.

http://www.messybeast.com/genetics/hybrid-rodent-lagomorph.htm