Grieving Rabbit

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A rabbit goes viral after he was seen resting his head on his wife while crying over losing her in a traffic accident 💔

Millions of people watching the video all share the same sentiment

It is far too painful to watch the rabbit grieve

Millions must grieve with the rabbit

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A single short video can stop people in their tracks, instantly unifying them in sorrow and love for a rabbit they've never met.

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Great to see our community continuing to grow ♥️

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https://t.co/3WgZB6i8Ro

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The rabbit thinks he grieves alone but we are all grieving with him

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When a rabbit's partner dies, the surviving rabbit can be dead within a day. Just from grief. The stress physically shuts its stomach down. Vets call it GI stasis, and it's a known killer of bonded partners. What you're watching might be the first hours of it.

Rabbit vets actually encourage letting the survivor stay with the body. They tell owners to give the rabbit time with its partner, sniffing, nudging, lying next to her, sometimes for a few hours. Without that goodbye, the survivor can spend weeks searching the home for a partner who never comes back. With it, they're more likely to eat the next day. More likely to live.

In 2008, researchers at the University of Edinburgh built an unusual cage to measure how much rabbits need each other. It had weighted doors at both ends. On one side, food. On the other, a few minutes of contact with another rabbit. The doors got heavier over time, so the rabbit had to really want it. The rabbits worked nearly as hard for the friend as they did for the food.

Watch a bonded pair and you see why. They follow each other around all day. Sleep pressed together at night. Groom each other's face, head, and ears in long, careful sessions. When their partner is close they make a soft clicking sound with their teeth, called tooth purring. It sounds like a cat's purr.

When one of them dies, the survivor's body reacts before its mind catches up. Rabbits are prey animals. Almost everything in the wild wants to eat them. Their bodies evolved one survival rule: when something scary happens, drop everything and run. So a rabbit's stress system is wired to switch hunger off in a crisis. Run first, eat later. That same wiring kicks in when a bonded mate suddenly disappears, except now there's nothing to run from. The rabbit hunches into itself, stops eating, and pulls away from everything around it. Some spend weeks searching the spot where their partner used to be.

Rabbit welfare groups have documented cases of surviving partners who simply stopped eating after their mate died. They sometimes call it dying of heartbreak.

The brown rabbit in the video is doing what a bonded rabbit does when his partner is suddenly gone. He stays close to her body. He keeps watch. He says goodbye the only way a rabbit can.

If he survives the next two weeks, it will be because someone notices he has stopped eating and gets him to a vet who knows rabbits. If he doesn't, his stomach will give out before anything else does. A bonded rabbit's body is built around being with another rabbit. When that other rabbit is gone, the body itself starts to fall apart.

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A rabbit goes viral after he was seen resting his head on his wife while crying over losing her in a traffic accident 💔

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There is nothing i would not sacrifice to love you again

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The grieving #Rabbit touched everyone’s heart. Here’s the thesis:

We all know emotions and memes should not go hand in hand. You always hear: don’t be emotional about a coin, don’t marry a coin, etc. Could we say this is the first meme that allows it?

How many of you invested in the rabbit after seeing the heartbreaking scene of it grieving its partner? I did, and that’s what keeps me wanting to continue, as this is a vital emotional meme for everyone. This is just a one day old meme, and the rabbit is less than a day old.

What if people start reacting on YouTube, X, TikTok, and streaming? Would that make it more viral?

#Rabbit is the only meme with consistency and emotional attachment.

Kira, a big account with 2.3m followers, shared it. https://t.co/LN3BQxAipW…

TikTok is going viral with 5m likes and over 8m views. https://t.co/4qwExFla5D

News outlets shared it on X with our X com https://t.co/aANalHTHY9…

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For anyone saying "but they're only rabbits, they don't have any emotions"....

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Loyalty in a world of rugs. Rather than the usual charity creator rewards which we've seen quickly go to zero, we suggest community members commit to donating to animal sanctuaries, orgs and shelters in your area as $rabbit continues to hit certain marketcaps from $1m upwards. Post the receipts here or in the community chat to encourage others to do the same. This will encourage long term hodling rather than the usual pump and dump which has plagued the trenches.

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“Grief only exists where love lived first.”

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"Rabbits form deep bonds and experience genuine grief when a partner dies. They may display lethargy, stop eating, or become withdrawn." 😭

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We now have a trending page, showing all the different viral posts while also showcasing our community explaining how we have been grieving alongside our dear rabbit.

https://t.co/3fXaU13sqL

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The grieving rabbit would be smiling if he could see all the new supporters he is gaining throughout the world.

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