Page 22 - The World of Animals

you, has also created this delicious fruit full of vitamin C in its

segmented form, ready to eat, in its special package. Now back to
rabbits! A rabbit can easily gnaw a carrot with its continually

growing front teeth that give it such a lovely look.
Apart from their nutritional needs, Allah has given living

creatures many features that make life easy for them. Various
rabbit species with different characteristics live on earth. Rabbits

living in cold regions, for example, are mostly white in colour. This
is an important feature that makes them invisible on the snow and

enables them to hide themselves effortlessly. Wild rabbits, which are
relatively bigger than other rabbits, have longer limbs and ears.

The desert American rabbit, on the other hand, has quite large ears.
These ears help rabbits to keep themselves cool.
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In nature, most animals live in particular territories they mark
out for themselves. This is similar to us living in our comfortable

homes surrounded by our family members. Animals and animal
groups usually avoid entering other animals' territories.

"Leaving a scent" is a method employed by animals to
mark their territories. Gazelles, for instance, leave a

substance with a scent similar to tar on long thin
branches and grasses to

mark their territory. This
substance, secreted

from the glands under
their eyes, informs

other gazelles that this field
is already occupied. Reindeer, on