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Rabbit ageing metric

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Django

Young Bun
Trying to come up with a metric for ageing my rabbits, so far I've been using:
Domestic rabbit maximum likely age = 12yrs
Human maximum likely age (my guess) = 100yrs
Human equivalent age = 100 / 12 X (Rabbit age) = 8.333 X (Rabbit age)

However a quick search on the Internet reveals that:
Oldest domestic rabbit = 18yrs
Oldest human = 121yrs
Human equivalent age = 121 / 18 X (Rabbit age) = 6.722 X (Rabbit age)

Which is more accurate? What do other users use?
 
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I go on 10 human to 1 bunny year - no idea why or how far off the mark that is. Interested to hear more...
 
I think 10 human years to 1 bunny would be a good rough guide. You're using outliers rather than averages - for human 80 (rounding) is about average and for bunnies 8.

It doesn't quite work like that though as rabbits develop a lot faster - so a rabbit goes from helpless babies to independent in 6 weeks - adult size in 6-8 months. Also rabbits tend to age quite well and decline more abruptly - a 7 year old rabbit can often act like a 4 year old rabbit in terms of fitness, where as there are quite a few changes in most 70 year old people.
 
I read somewhere recently that my 5 month olds are equivalent to a 14 year old human, teenage stage would fit nice, but it alters as they get older. If I can find it I'll put it on here.
 
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