I can't work out Boobly, I think she is above the construct of intelligence myself :lol:
Totally agree! And Mouse
Being purely herbivorous prey animals, they arguably 'need' less intelligence than anything that hunts, so many birds (not much waterfowl though), anything omnivorous like pigs or bears, and they are sociable so we should compare them with stuff like that, ground squirrels, (wild?) horses, wildebeest... Being kept in confinement (domesticated) would affect some of the measures, as they might need to worry less about predators or the like, althoug I expect this would be on an individual basis more than a broad generalisation.
Wild rabbits I would think fall into the smart enough to not run from a predator at first sight, like wildebeest, rather than panicked creatures. I've seen them satanding near enough to the edges of undergrowth in the meadow, watching a buzzard and/or a fox. But if they can't see it, they either go and hide or come out and watch. Some of the adult rabbits around here have clocked that humans aren't a threat, especially on the Uni campus, but will slink off as soon as they perceive a dog.
Aboleth definitely fitted average wild rabbit intelligence. She was smart enough to go and get Lopsy when there was food she wouldn't get without then both being there, she tried to make friends with friendly cats, but not with stalky cats, and she wasn't as fussed by canal boats as Lopsy. But she hated helicopters as much, and low flying planes, because those noises were quite sudden and there's not much time to see them and assess. She hated people being up high but we put this down to only having one eye
That was her only major weirdness in that sense.
Lopsy is stupid. He's mostly deaf, which doesn't help, but he and Aboleth were exposed to windowsill = pellets at the same time and she picked it up whereas he sometimes just forgets, gets distracted etc. He's lived next to a canal for the past nearly 7 years but still can't deal with some of the boat noises (we think he can hear deep sounds). He panics a lot, but I think that might be deafness. He falls off things because he's not as aware of his surroundings (i.e. foot placement on things while mouth is eating).
Chibbs isn't great either. She falls off things too, like she failed to judge the distance but she can see fine (I've checked!), and she isn't as fussed by food so the pellet thing doesn't work on her as much. Thankfully she won't stay in one area for long if people are about and it's not sleep time so you can almost guarantee she'll come to where you want her in about 10mins. She's very curious but hasn't cottoned on that the carrier means bad things :lol: I am grateful for this XD
Some evening s when we've spent 15mins trying to get them to the pellet windowsill we do have a 'oh god we miss you Aboleth' moment :lol:
