I was on a bus and we gut stuck behind a small auto accident anyway I was sitting in traffic for about 10 minutes, when I looked out the window onto the side of the highway where there was a rabbit and a robin, that appeared to be fighting
The rabbit would hop two steps and the robin would fly back a bit. Then the robin would charge forward with it’s beak about two steps and the rabbit would hop backwards.
Then it would start all over again. This last the whole time I was watching (about ten minutes). Then the bus left and they were still fighting.
I didn’t see anything but a rabbit and a robin. Maybe there were babies? I don’t know, but I can’t figure out what a rabbit and robin would be fighting about?
Robins don’t eat rabbits and vice versa. So do they eat the same food?
I thought it might have been a baby they were fighting about, but then I thought why?
OK if it was a baby robin, what possible interest in a baby robin would a rabbit have? Rabbits don’t eat meat or in this case baby robins, or do they? Would a robin be trying to eat a baby rabbit?
Was it more like a rabbit or like a hare/jackrabbit (can’t find which species might live in the area)? I’m just trying to picture what territorial concerns there might be.
My rabbit likes to beat up my cats - any opportunity that presents - the cats could be quietly sleeping somewhere out of the way and the bunny will get stuck in for no reason. My bunny much to my disgust is a jerk bunny.
I suspect that the robin was quietly minding it’s own business before coming into the sights of a jerk bunny.
Maybe the cat is diabolically framing the rabbit so that the rabbit attacks the cat only when you’re around. When you’re not around, the cats waterboard the bunny or something.
My office window looks out on a fairly rural field. I saw a short-lived version of this behavior. Except the players were a large crow and a hare. It didn’t last long. The hare chased the crow off in short order. (I was surprised; crows are bad mofos.)