Bunny and hare mating?

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- 07/16/2017 at 5:06 PM
  Austin
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  I was wondering if its possible for a wild hare and a typical house bunny to mate
- 07/16/2017 at 6:46 PM
  LittlePuffyTail
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  Nope. Different Species. Copied and Pasted the facts for you.
  
  Hares (Lepus) have 24 pairs of chromosomes while the domestic rabbit (Oryctolagus) has 22 and the cottontail (Sylvilagus) has 21 pair. While mating is possible between the different species, the resulting embryos will die after a few cell divisions because of the differences in the number of chromosome pairs.
- 07/16/2017 at 6:48 PM
  LBJ10
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  They can mate, sure. But no babies will result.
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