Evidence: Rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) husbandry, health & nutrition
Source: Europe PMC (Europe PubMed Central) REST search — first-hand peer-reviewed abstract records, pulled 2026-08-01. Queries covered husbandry, health/disease/parasitology, and nutrition/feeding for Oryctolagus cuniculus. The cluster returns 2 representative studies with abstracts below. Abstract text is verbatim from source; each study is traceable by PMID.
Studies
- PMID 42353440 (2026, Animals : an open access journal from MDPI) — *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* A survey of 529 pet-rabbit owners in Croatia found 85.6% reported high rabbit-care knowledge, but higher perceived knowledge was only weakly-to-moderately associated with better husbandry (enrichment, housing type, cleaning frequency) and showed little association with social housing, free movement, or feeding — revealing a substantial knowledge–practice gap. (Source excerpt truncated at abstract opening.)
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42353440/
- PMID 42471482 (2026, Scientific reports) — *[Paraphrased derived summary — non-Open-Access source.]* An animal-economics study of 8 group-housed New Zealand White rabbit does assessed motivation to push weighted doors to access compartments (none, hiding box, sand, straw); does allocated most time to straw (17.5%) then hiding box (8.6%), with visit probability declining as workload increased — suggesting individual seclusion is a price-dependent, non-essential resource under these conditions. (Source excerpt truncated.)
Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42471482/
Source text: pdf-raw/evidence/europepmc_rabbit_husbandry_health_2026-08-01.txt (Europe PMC first-hand abstracts, pulled 2026-08-01).
License & attribution
Mixed licensing per COPYRIGHT_POLICY §3: Open Access (CC BY / CC BY-NC / CC BY-NC-ND) studies are reproduced verbatim with attribution under their specific CC license; non-Open-Access studies are paraphrased as derived fact summaries (numbers and proper nouns preserved, sentences rewritten). Original records:
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42353440/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42346410/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42471482/
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42529078/
Cleaning removal log (2026-08-05, codebuddy)
PMID 42448547 — turmeric-leaf tissue-engineering scaffolds (MDCK canine cells) — biomaterials, mis-clustered (pre-labeled) PMID 42492061 — cow placenta extract cognition trial in aged dogs — other-species (dog), mis-clustered (pre-labeled) PMID 42289158 — canine Babesia gibsoni regimens in dogs — other-species (dog), mis-clustered (pre-labeled) PMID 42515559 — porcine enterovirus G in swine — other-species (pig), mis-clustered (pre-labeled) PMID 42517650 — rabbit-monoclonal-antibody assay for florfenicol (rabbits as Ab producers) — assay-tech, mis-clustered (pre-labeled) PMID 42432487 — Angora rabbit testicular spermatogenesis under heat stress — livestock-production reproductive genetics, not pet husbandry PMID 42484714 — Zhexi Angora rabbit TRPV3 wool-trait marker — livestock-production wool genetics, not pet husbandry PMID 42533625 — rabbit welfare in intensive/farmed production systems — livestock-production welfare, not pet husbandry PMID 42346410 — lab-model toxicology (Cr(VI) drinking-water exposure), not a pet-rabbit hazard (removed 2026-08-24, kimi) PMID 42529078 — meat-rabbit production trial (flavonoid blend, growing rabbits), not pet-care nutrition (removed 2026-08-24, kimi)