# Rabbit -v- Robin
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 4, 2010, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505 "2010-07-04T10:38:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2010, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/1 "2010-07-04T10:38:24Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2010, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/2 "2010-07-04T12:03:16Z")
Maybe the rabbit was too near a fledgling? But IIRC robins are fiercely territorial anyway.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2010, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/3 "2010-07-04T18:42:22Z")
“\*Robin-\*Season…!”
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2010, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/4 "2010-07-04T18:53:48Z")
And all I can picture is Batman’s buddy getting mowed down by an old VW.
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/5 "2010-07-04T19:24:42Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#):
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> “\*Robin-\*Season…!”
_Wabbit Season!_
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2010, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/6 "2010-07-04T23:54:10Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#):
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> “\*Robin-\*Season…!”
You mean, \*“Wobin-\*Season!”
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2010, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/7 "2010-07-05T00:29:35Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/8 "2010-07-05T03:59:01Z")
> [@Markxxx](#):
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> Rabbits don’t eat meat or in this case baby robins, or do they
[I beg to differ](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069005/).
Was it more like a [rabbit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Cottontail) or like a [hare/jackrabbit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hare) (can’t find which species might live in the area)? I’m just trying to picture what territorial concerns there might be.
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### Author:  [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/9 "2010-07-05T04:25:10Z")
If you were riding the bus somewhere in England or France, it was probably the [Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_of_Caerbannog).
Was the robin African or European?
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### Author:  [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2010, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/10 "2010-07-05T04:26:27Z")
I am in Chicago, and it looked like a regular old gray rabbit and it was an [American Robin](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Robin)
I figured they had to be fighting over something. Because why wouldn’t one of them just leave otherwise?
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### Author:  [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2010, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/11 "2010-07-05T05:08:06Z")
> [@](#):
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> Rabbit -v- Robin
Did anyone else think this thread was going to be about a cage fight between **Bugs** and the **Boy Wonder**? Just me? Ah well.
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### Author:  [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2010, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/12 "2010-07-05T05:09:30Z")
> [@Askance](#):
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> Did anyone else think this thread was going to be about a cage fight between **Bugs** and the **Boy Wonder**? Just me? Ah well.
I thought it was going to be some new type of bumfights.
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### Author:  [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2010, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/13 "2010-07-06T00:32:54Z")
RUN AWAY :eek:
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### Author:  [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2010, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/14 "2010-07-06T01:27:14Z")
> [@Askance](#):
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> Did anyone else think this thread was going to be about a cage fight between **Bugs** and the **Boy Wonder**? Just me? Ah well.
Actually, a long open fight between the Teen Titans version of Robin and the classic Bugs Bunny would be kind of amusing.
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### Author:  [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2010, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/15 "2010-07-06T07:41:51Z")
> [@Chimera](#):
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> Actually, a long open fight between the Teen Titans version of Robin and the classic Bugs Bunny would be kind of amusing.
Bugs \> Superman.
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### Author:  [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2010, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/16 "2010-07-06T08:19:38Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2010, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/17 "2010-07-06T10:38:32Z")
> [@madrabbitwoman](#):
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> My bunny much to my disgust is 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.
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### Author:  [@madrabbitwoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madrabbitwoman)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/18 "2010-07-09T04:25:32Z")
I wouldn’t pu it past the cats to do that - but the main victim is far far too dumb and the other avoids the bunny like the plague.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Booker\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Booker_1)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/19 "2010-07-09T13:23:08Z")
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.)
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2010, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rabbit-v-robin/545505/20 "2010-07-09T13:41:15Z")
> [@Chimera](#):
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> Actually, a long open fight between the Teen Titans version of Robin and the classic Bugs Bunny would be kind of amusing.
\>\>crunch crunch crunch\<\<
Nice pants, Doc. Your Mother buy them for you?
\>\>crunch crunch crunch\<\<
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