[Petbunny] re. Need Robyn's Help!/rabbit orienteering skills

[Jenny Riley]

when we were trying to teach Muffin the stairs we took her downstairs to
make her hop her way back up. And she would hop up to the landing and back
down no problem.

When she finally hopped all the way back up to the second floor she had a
little bunny revelation. You could see the realization set in it dawn on her
"ooooooh, I know where I yam, so dis leads to *here*"

it was too funny.

-- Jenny, Muffin and Scout

On Jan 15, 2008 3:47 PM, Nishioka, Mary <MNishioka at air.org> wrote:

> Bunnies have amazing memories when you think how large a house is in
> relation to their size. They know what rooms are on the hallway, and
> within each room, what the floor (furniture) layout is, escape routes,
> hidey holes are, everything.  And then when you consider they have eye
> on the sides of their heads and not in front like we do, their little
> minds processing what they see as they zoom down hallways, and around
> rooms-it's quite impressive. ('yep, that's there, yep there's that,
> which means there'll be something in front of me to hop around...')
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> I sort of wonder if bunnies' understanding of rooms and routes within a
> house sort of snap together like a jigsaw puzzle as they get acquainted
> room by room, over time.
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> When Herman and GT were alive it was neat to watch them navigate a new
> area of the house, and then when meander their way to a threshold of an
> area they are familiar with (eg doorway of hallway), all of a sudden it
> was like "aha! I know where I am!" and then they always have to hop back
> and forth and play to the new area, as if to commit it all to memory.
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