The rabbit was domesticated only about 1,500 years ago. Monks in Southern France were the first people to successfully tame a rabbit. Then, the Catholic Church declared young rabbit meat was to be treated as a type of fish and would only be eaten on lent.
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Nowadays, there are over 60 different breeds of rabbits and every one of them is adored by humans.
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Hardly any animal is more difficult to tame than the young of the wild rabbit; scarcely any animal is tamer than the young of the tame rabbit." The Origin Of Species by Charles Darwin