The Bunny Advantage during Bonding

   Bunnies, despite needing assistance from humans during bonding, have the upper hand in it. Why, you ask? The answer lies in their extraordinary use of senses. Humans have only a fraction of the olfactory sense that bunnies do. Their sense of smell detects secretions from scent glands. They have a similar Endocrine system to ours whereby each of our essential bodily functions such as metabolism, responses to stimuli like stress, growth, moods, appetite, emotions, and sleep releases hormones into the bloodstream while simultaneously monitoring levels. Each hormone has a specific scent that humans cannot smell but, the exceptional bunny nose can. Not only do they smell this information, they assign values to them. Bunnies can also release hormones by secreting them at will. Chinning, rubbing, urinating, and depositing fecal waste are all ways bunnies deposit scents. When a bunny is agitated during a bonding session, the other bunny knows it long before the bunny indicates it visually for a human to interpret. Conversely, when a human during the bonding process is nervous, the bunnies know about it. It is almost as if they can read our minds. In this way, they have the bonding advantage over us. Humans must rely only on behavior cues while buns have vision and scent.