Bunnies vs. Humans

    While caring for and bonding bunnies, people often anthropomorphize them. This is an error in human judgement as bunnies are bunnies and people are people. Thinking of bunnies as pint-sized people parading around in fur coats, fluffy scuts, oversized ears, and heart noses projects human attitudes on to them. While rabbits are complex and capable of emotion, they do not possess the full range that humans do. Animals are incapable of logic, an attribute of mental cognition reserved for homo sapiens. They have intelligence similar to a four-year-old person. Their inability to process abstract concepts sets them apart from people. Rabbits value resources in different ways than people, often placing top priority on the continuation of life through reproduction and food intake, safety from predators, love from companions, and spatial arrangements that allow for movement necessary for the health of vital muscles and organs. Humans value life along with comfort and place an emphasis on environmental aesthetics, food, more or less for taste instead of optimizing health, possessions including wealth, travel, family, etc . 
     In order for bonding to be successful, it requires us to step outside of our tendency to evaluate them from our perspective, expecting them to act and think like we do and to appreciate the way they behave. We should stop projecting our own emotions onto the way their interactions because it will make it  impossible to understand reasons behind their behaviors as bunnies. Consider their different communication style which involves slight sounds, glandular releases, physical posturing, and ingestion of materials. Humans, on the other hand, rely to a small degree on body language and more on sight and sound. Changing the way we interpret bunny behavior will help with bringing bunnies together to become friends.