100 years old bunnies

It's interesting why animals' life is so much shorter than human life. And most animals are born by 2-3+ at a time, while for a human woman it's very uncommon to give birth to 3+ children at once. So many generations of rabbits will pass while a human generation lives on. It seems that life of an animal was created to be more transient than human life. That's a pity.

Talking about rabbits, usually they live for 6-8 years. And here is one of the oldest rabbits - George. In 2008 he was 14 and was acknowledged to be the oldest rabbit alive.


The oldest rabbit ever was about 18 years old and lived in 1960s. That's amazing, when a life span of an individual exceeds the life span of the whole species by 2 or 3 times. For example, a human with a life span 3 times higher than his kind would live for 160+ years.

It's good to know that house rabbits live longer than rabbits in the wild. Yeah, people can have at least SOME positive effect on the nature of this planet - like keeping bunnies away from danger and stress!