Oh dear! Already I've run into trouble as the first site offered was this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit . I can see that Wiki is going to be a bit of a pain in the scut and if it begins to turn up too often as first choice I'll have to rethink the strategy. Never mind that at the moment - what about the site? This Wiki isn't a bad piece of work all told. It does have a few errors (e.g. that bunnies get along with guinea pigs) but it is quite thorough - enough for year 7 project on rabbits, say.
What I like about this Wiki is that it deals with the whole creature. So here we have the details of how it eats, breeds and lives alongside myths and legends, its use as clothing, and fictional bunnies, with loads of follow-up links. This is an important issue: if you compare to, for example, TV wildlife programmes, in these there is far too much spectacle and natural history info which rarely moves beyond what a creature eats, what eats it, how it mates, what it fights, and where it lives. Go to the related website and you get much of the same, or "how it was filmed"; it's a very narrow view.
Having said that, this Rabbit Wiki is structured very much around the "scientific gaze". There's no feeling that we are talking about a living bouncy hoppy creature here. The categories are science-discourse-based: "location and habitat", "characteristics and anatomy", despite the break-out into other info areas. One thing is very absent here though, considering the science-focus - there's nothing about the use of the rabbit as a scientific tool: a big, big gap in the Wiki.
Not counting the titles and redirects, the next terms will be rabbits and Leporidae, separated this time by the Boolean term NOT.
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