Unlocking the Bonding Mystery: Part I

    The distinction between different species is the key to unlocking the mystery of bonding. Bunnies are a totally different species from humans. Bonding deals mostly with behavioral issues, so, setting the obvious physical variances aside, consider how rabbits act around other rabbits, separate from how they act around people. How do bunnies behave differently than people? When you meet another person for the first time, your mind gathers information by use of your senses, namely eyesight and hearing. We evaluate the person's age, height, weight, gender, style of dressing immediately by using just our eyes. We observe the person's behavior to determine whether they will be receptive to interacting with us. Humans use senses in this order: eyesight, hearing, smelling, touching, and tasting. Bunnies, by contrast, use hearing, smelling, and smelling first before moving to touching and tasting. So, imagine a bunny meeting another bunny for the first time. They listen intently to the heartbeat, digestion, and respiration and know what the other b un  is feeling, eats, health status, age, gender, and more. They split their upper lips to allow airborne scent particles to enter their nostrils. The first sense a baby rabbit (kit) can use is olfaction. Understanding that bunnies need to smell each other as part of meeting and evaluating is part of unlocking the key to bonding.