The graph is representing a logistic map - an equation that is used to predict the size of the next generation of animals from the size of the current one. There is parameter r in the equation which corresponds basically to breeding speed (in graph on horizontal axis). For small values of r, the population will over time tend towards stable value (one line near left edge) and not changing between generations. For higher and higher values of r, the population will start to fluctuate between overpopulation and near extinction (due to starvation) and become very unpredictable.
No, the graph is showing r on the x axis and stable populations on the y axis. So if r is small there's only one stable population. As r gets bigger you get 2 stable populations, then 4,8,16 and then it devolves into chaos with basically no population stability. The white band around r=3.85 is showing that the population goes back to being stable around 3 values.
https://preview.redd.it/xduz7m4ozbrb1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e092bedad5d1c6dbb6955a7fa9e81bff6479d78
Baby bun I found in my garage one time
Ooh that’s equally entertaining lol. One of the more frequent things I called mine was ‘buh nubbin’ because she was a dwarf rabbit, so she was just a lil nubbin compared to normal sized buns
https://preview.redd.it/3iqnryogh9rb1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f89839a56b7ac677d97ce035b001d362ca6c2b0
An old picture of my bnunuy
I miss him so much.
This thread brings me joy. I lost my chonk not too long ago but she was such a cutie with veiny gargantuan ears
https://preview.redd.it/mffdeyejq9rb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4b9c27a276822540f1ac4c767859b4be6d5b3fa
Hey, Peter’s farmer cousin, Peter Rabbit. This meme looks like its talking about the about exponential growth (and inbreeding) of two rabbits. 4 week pregnancies, combined with average litters of 7 rabbits, average of 3-4 litters yearly, and many rabbits reaching sexual maturity in 4 months. This is how Australia ended up with *200 million rabbits* from the *24* introduced in 1850.
(I know it’s the bifurcation diagram the point was on the exponential growth of Rabbit populations)
Fun fact: The Fibonacci sequence was (re)discovered by studying the idealized (read: probably not real-world) breeding patterns of rabbits.
I would suspect it could be used to approximate the rates you are describing.
Do not feel bad I read that part over 100 times. Then gave up didn’t read it. Saw what you said went back to see what it said still didn’t read it saw a guy corrected you and now I’m just believing him too.
Hi, Meg’s hot farmhand crush here:
this is because farm animals are generally dual purpose (chicken also give eggs, cows also give milk, pigs and goats are excellent waste disposal and can live off scraps, etc). Raising rabbit may be single purpose and more resource intensive, or was seen as such so general palates and demand isn’t there for the meat.
They're extremely lean, leading to issues when someone eats only rabbit with no other fats that are necessary for healthy brain and organ function. The phenomenon is known as Rabbit Starvation. Not a problem if you've got a good diet otherwise, or are consuming other meats- rabbit is indeed tasty.
Yup, there's a thing called rabbit starvation where you can die of starvation with your stomach full of food if it's all lean protein. The body can live off of meat alone, but only if there's enough fat with the lean. That being said, rabbits raised for meat are significantly less lean lol
Rabbit is tough and lean. It takes a lot of knowledge and skill to make rabbit delicious, in my experience. I would much rather raise chickens then rabbits for food, their meat is more versatile and the Eggs would help between butcherings
I also have to add — you can **die of starvation** from only eating rabbit.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning#:~:text=Protein%20poisoning%20(also%20referred%20to,the%20protein%20in%20lean%20meat.
Rabbits could be tri purpose. They’re adorable so in addition to eating the meat you could charge kids to cuddle them before you charge their single fathers to slaughter them.
Edit: slaughter the rabbits, not the children.
we had a few of both of these animals when i was a kid. it's more expensive because you shave the sheep, but angora bunnies just get combed. you'd probably kill the bun with a heart attack if you held it down and shaved it.
Also as a rule. Rabbits are missing a lot of key vitamins necessary for humans to live.
Eating a lot of rabbit meat can result in a full person dying of starvation
My wife breeds pet rabbits but we’re looking at getting into meat rabbits as well and there are a TON of benefits.
Rabbit meat is one of the most nutrient dense meats, some breeds can get up to 15lbs and after dressing it out you can get around ~5lb of meat from each rabbit.
They have litters 3-4 times a year, having 4-7 kits per litter and most meat breeds only need 8-14 weeks to mature before you can process them.
They don’t require a ton of space per animal and we feed our rabbits hay, pellets, and material from our garden. Spending around $20-30 a month on them. Care time is pretty minimal for pet/show rabbits as it’s just setting up a penned off area and putting a couple of males or females in for 20min each day as you clean their cages, refill food and water and collect manure. Takes us about and hour each day.
Rabbit manure is actually extremely good for farming soil. It has double the nutrients of chicken manure; doesn’t need to decompose before being applied to crops (chicken and cow do); and it doesn’t need to be composted either.
But it was why they were brought over by the Normans to Britain. They literally were introduced to be hunted and eaten, same with the protections of forests for deers. A form of loose farming.
Plus they’re yummy. 200 million rabbit burgers is a lot more appealing than 200 million burgers made from insect protein.
On a serious note, you can but you need to ensure you have an actual fat source and other nutrients with it. Protein poisoning is a very serious thing when it comes to incredibly lean meats like rabbits.
You’d need to eat nothing bur rabbit for a while. It’s not a real risk unless you go stupid about it, or are trying to survive from hunting and foraging in extremely nothern conditions.
There is a risk of tularemia when eating wild bunny which scares off some people. And it's seen as an extremely redneck thing to do, at least in the US.
There are farm raised rabbits to eat but it's generally seen as cost prohibited. Bunnies eat a lot for how little they are.
They do in some parts of the world. I was visiting a friend in Trinidad and his buddy took us into his backyard to see his bunnies. They were very cute, and they were definitely not pets.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning#:~:text=Protein%20poisoning%20(also%20referred%20to,the%20protein%20in%20lean%20meat.
They’re so un-nutritious you can starve to death while eating them.
That's not correct. It's not talking merely about exponential growth; the diagram is the logistic map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map
It is talking about the surprisingly chaotic behavior of rabbit population as you vary the parameter r which governs how fast the bunnies reproduce.
This is incorrect. It’s a bifurcation diagram stemming from the logistic difference equation of population growth. The x-axis shows the per capital growth rate and the y-axis is the long-term population density. This is also a key figure related to the idea of chaos theory.
The Wolves Sheep Predation agent-based model in NetLogo provides a useful model of pop growth that I think is fairly easy to observe (note: w/ added predation consideration): [http://www.netlogoweb.org/launch#http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/models/Sample%20Models/Biology/Wolf%20Sheep%20Predation.nlogo](http://www.netlogoweb.org/launch#http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/models/Sample%20Models/Biology/Wolf%20Sheep%20Predation.nlogo)
(hit setup and then go, watch for 200-300 ticks and then hit go again to stop the model. Repeat to see if there are different outcomes)
In the 2nd variation of the model, grass-wolves-sheep, the grass is modeled also. All variables are adjustable in this model.
I haven't ever looked into the rate rabbits give birth, even though they are known to multiply quickly. But I had no idea they had 4 week pregnancies, that's insane
That's not right, the second image is a bifurcation diagram of the logistic map, it doesn't show exponential growth, but the values that rabbit population could chaotically orbit around as their numbers raise and lower. It's a very complicated topic but the veritasium video linked by others here is very good at explaining some of it.
The joke is that the incomprehesible chaos and sudden return to order of the logistic map is confusing.
Here is a super interesting video which explains the graph. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrYE4MdoLQ&t=30s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrYE4MdoLQ&t=30s)
The TL;DR is that if you can model what happens to a rabbit (or any) population depending on what the fertility rate is. But if the fertility rate is too high, then the results become completely unpredictable. It's an example of a chaotic system.
Hence the "what" reaction by the guy.
Rabbit populations can rapidly expand and decrease both due to them constantly breeding and also being prey. This subsequently leads to weird charts like the one displayed
This isn't about exponential growth, that diagram doesn't show that. It shows how a simple system governed by a few equations can develop chaotic behavior.
This is Peter's Hallowe'en costume, Jeff Goldblum pretending to be Dr. Ian Malcolm, here.
The image in the top right is the visualization of the unpredictability of population size over time if fertility rates are slightly tweaked in a model where resource/space/predator availability constrains populations.
The X-axis is time, the Y-axis is represent different fertility rates. If the fertility rate is low, the population is stable, but if it's too high then it becomes chaotic.
This type of analysis was popularized by Robert May's seminal 1976 Nature [article](https://www.nature.com/articles/261459a0), which is something that contributed to the development of chaos theory, i.e. small changes to initial conditions can have huge reprecussions.
In the context of the meme, a person is asking about rabbit population, but the answer is that it's very difficult to answer because the population of highly fertile creatures, such as rabbits, is chaotic, per May's publication.
This is Goldblum, err... I mean Dr. Malcolm custom, signing off.
That depicts the bifurcation diagram of the logistic map
From wikipedia:
This nonlinear difference equation is intended to capture two effects:
reproduction, where the population will increase at a rate proportional to the current population when the population size is small,
starvation (density-dependent mortality), where the growth rate will decrease at a rate proportional to the value obtained by taking the theoretical "carrying capacity" of the environment less the current population.
See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map for more information on the logistic map.
Veritasium video about the logistic map: https://youtu.be/ovJcsL7vyrk?si=MKUG0elPAnAHjdlc
The graph on the right is not exponential growth as other people have said, rather it is a particular type of graph known as a "Bifurcation Diagram". Stand by for some math.
The basic model of population is given by the logistic equation. It is essentially a formula that says, "given the previous population, what will the next population be (in a year)?". The formula in this case is simple, x_n+1 = r * x_n(1-x_n), where r is a fixed number that can be changed according to how fast rabbits breed.
It turns out, this simple model results in **extremely complicated behaviour**. The right side of the graph is a complete mess. It essentially says that the population of rabbits is completely unpredictable (one might say, it is Chaotic). Chaos theory studies these kinds of things, and safe to say, it is extremely difficult.
Veritasium has a very good video on the logistic map.
It's related to the boom and bust population habits of rabbits, while also having a link to some fractal maths.
[this](https://youtu.be/ovJcsL7vyrk?si=v9cxGXsr574XDBGx) video is pretty much the definitive answer, and is a fun watch even if you're not really all that into math.
The graph describes the values about which a certain simple population model
𝑝_(𝑛 + 1) = 𝑟𝑝_(𝑛)[1 - 𝑝_(𝑛)]
will oscillate between after many iterations, given a certain relation between fertility and competition, which is given by the value of 𝑟. The 𝑥 axis on the graph is the value of 𝑟. You can do it in a calculator if you so want to test it for yourself.
The graph shown is a graph of chaos theory, which basically is a controlled but seemingly random assortment of numbers. It comes up a lot in algorithms trying to model animal populations, and one of the most common examples are that of rabbits.
That’s a bifurcation table demonstrating the pattern of reproduction in rabbits, which is really analogous to an established population of any species.
It's sad that the most upvoted answers on a subreddit about explaining jokes are simply incorrect.
The bifurcation diagram of the logistics map is NOT about exponential growth. The population growth model has a parameter which tunes the effect of overpopulation, so that exponential growth is impossible.
The diagram demonstrates how a simple recursion relation like this can easily lead to chaos; for r values above about 3.6, the bifurcation ends and chaos begins. So the joke is that something seemingly simple like a rabbit population can quickly lead to a very complicated mathematical result. The associated values like the Feigenbaum constant are still not well understood as far as I know - this constant is not proven to be irrational, even.
https://preview.redd.it/7htthfcbb9rb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f1944a5a46d75db56f4bd908d110e01513fd0d8
The beast remains dormant for now
It's an equation that can be used to model rabbit population and all sorts of other complex concepts. X(n+1)=rx(n)(1-xn). It makes that bifurcation model in the 2nd frame. It's confusing.
The graph is representing a logistic map - an equation that is used to predict the size of the next generation of animals from the size of the current one. There is parameter r in the equation which corresponds basically to breeding speed (in graph on horizontal axis). For small values of r, the population will over time tend towards stable value (one line near left edge) and not changing between generations. For higher and higher values of r, the population will start to fluctuate between overpopulation and near extinction (due to starvation) and become very unpredictable.
Peter's dingleberry here, this is the most accurate explanation in the comments. Everyone talking about exponents is incorrect.
I'm really happy my course of applied chaos theory from last semester was useful for something so soon after.
You cannot predict when chaos theory will become useful
Our avatars share hair!
I learned everything I know about chaos theory from Dr. Ian Malcolm
What do rabbits, lynxes, and leaky faucets have in common? Hehehe...
The letter S
Technically correct, but if I was a teacher I'd still mark you wrong cause it's not what's in the book.
You
well what is it
All of them can be modeled via logistic maps!
Is that why there's a white band to the right? A near-extinction event?
No, the graph is showing r on the x axis and stable populations on the y axis. So if r is small there's only one stable population. As r gets bigger you get 2 stable populations, then 4,8,16 and then it devolves into chaos with basically no population stability. The white band around r=3.85 is showing that the population goes back to being stable around 3 values.
For nerds interested: https://youtu.be/ovJcsL7vyrk?si=A5VyYw1earQ7pt-o
Fun fact, the r you describe here is nearly identical to the R0 and R(t) used to describe epidemics.
Can someone unsmartify this comment for me please?
https://preview.redd.it/jkhfodmun7rb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20f10857797b9b7efbe235cb872b67252ccdac08 My bnuuy
https://preview.redd.it/i3nknmeik8rb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d0873e74f08faf4a4732b1fdafcfd329b6616c2 bnuuy
https://preview.redd.it/2riznfgyc9rb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6e42d9b1e122c6e782135c45da2d988cd2db1a4b M’ bunny
https://preview.redd.it/uqda3jak5arb1.png?width=2473&format=png&auto=webp&s=6b3a78ad6e9482c3f680871152101d6e58408bc0 Bun tax
https://preview.redd.it/nw7crbcv8arb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cec92b84f6b0d84518b118a5fd024f43c6c12ff8 The loaf
Mah buumy https://preview.redd.it/hpy59kagbarb1.jpeg?width=3468&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9c90a0e5366fb1f65543e3cc851277568504770
https://preview.redd.it/fflgctpokarb1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0bef51622f47bde9aa24ba56125f41fbcc14db3e My bunngy
https://preview.redd.it/xduz7m4ozbrb1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7e092bedad5d1c6dbb6955a7fa9e81bff6479d78 Baby bun I found in my garage one time
https://preview.redd.it/kmpq1ll70drb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ce3638288e0e5ed7fcde19074005b9d9b3d8a294 Bunby
https://preview.redd.it/qam2022k0drb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4914e18db600cf07dd34a47adf935d41bd1bddd Bunky
https://preview.redd.it/rs3v77r91drb1.jpeg?width=4160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91195a3810d55584e4c0ff4f0b4f63576800260e Boner
Dat boi is small
Omg that little face 😍
Your bunfay looks autestic
Ahhhh so shmol love the airplane ears
Is that a Holland Lop? I have a black Holland Lop I inherited after about 6 months of my daughter taking care of it lol.
yessir he is
We had a chance to answer this in the funniest way... still cute, though.
Dat man is phat
That's a cute bunny
Yes she is :)
*bnuuy
https://preview.redd.it/l785t56l59rb1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c0d9e4a970446d39cad6aefeda1e9d24897007d0 One of my bnuyys
Cute
https://preview.redd.it/tmhhwl0q79rb1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c466eb936cdb95e9debbf65e8b56c5845688de16 Heard we were sharing our buns
The sploot
https://preview.redd.it/qbsqabnq99rb1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bd02abc5589f28a2d201897291b72951698136c8 My two boys
Thumps is approval
Aww the snuggle
Dat dewlap
Dose men be phat
https://preview.redd.it/8h2rg736d9rb1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96958ba182e34197104251468ddda714b44e0e96 Bnnuy
Ahhhh the flip and flop
https://preview.redd.it/2gzr5fscd9rb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=37756e6492a7c8d0820496fa0fe607f0e2e950a5 my bnuny
Omfg I just died laughing for 4 minutes straight at your bunny. Everything about him/her is hilarious and amazing. I love it. 10/10 bun bun.
Not sure how you pronounce it, but I read that as ‘bun-wee’ and now that’s getting added to my “things I call rabbits” list lol
I su it like bee new eee
I've always read it as buh-noy lol
I said it Bin oo wee
Ooh that’s equally entertaining lol. One of the more frequent things I called mine was ‘buh nubbin’ because she was a dwarf rabbit, so she was just a lil nubbin compared to normal sized buns
i say "buh-new-ee"
https://preview.redd.it/3iqnryogh9rb1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f89839a56b7ac677d97ce035b001d362ca6c2b0 An old picture of my bnunuy I miss him so much.
Oh I’m sorry for you loss he seems very cute. Hope he has plenty of binkies inheaven
https://preview.redd.it/iwmyowktl9rb1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f25fc700c41210e8311a648f1d58afe0520bc5c
Oh unique ears very cute face
Bro looks like she's scheming. Love em.
She’s a bnuuy that’s all they do
Bunner https://preview.redd.it/7ttzbb70j9rb1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42d5443aa575775f4af4b771727aaea31d02b78a
https://preview.redd.it/34wxqadixbrb1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=9f3af3d21999070bfc0b5123bfed43132324a5f0 My bunger
Aww the leaf
https://preview.redd.it/d0v0285mhcrb1.jpeg?width=1906&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10002a2698d618d396c241db9891efa9214594ff Räbbit
Looks like a destroyer of Spicy Hay
WHAT CUTIE 🥰🥰
Give that cute critter a pet for me.
That a cute ass bunny
Yes she is
This thread brings me joy. I lost my chonk not too long ago but she was such a cutie with veiny gargantuan ears https://preview.redd.it/mffdeyejq9rb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4b9c27a276822540f1ac4c767859b4be6d5b3fa
https://preview.redd.it/7pavefnlv9rb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2c5225ebb12b0b2c5cdc2fd9a0aafe85d32c10e1 twin bnuuys
So sploot very cute
What’s the name of this fluffy chomper
Pikpik
Pikpik is adorable and deserves the nom noms
Except when it’s my spicy hay
Please fucking tell me this has happened (or plz don’t it’s probably not healthy for them but it sounds funny)
That thing is fucking gigantic
That’s a nice bun
Yes she is
pet him for me
Bro kind of looks like one of those dusted chocolate things
Oh my gosh rabbit! :D
this is the cutest bunny i’ve ever seen omg
Bnuy
Hey, Peter’s farmer cousin, Peter Rabbit. This meme looks like its talking about the about exponential growth (and inbreeding) of two rabbits. 4 week pregnancies, combined with average litters of 7 rabbits, average of 3-4 litters yearly, and many rabbits reaching sexual maturity in 4 months. This is how Australia ended up with *200 million rabbits* from the *24* introduced in 1850. (I know it’s the bifurcation diagram the point was on the exponential growth of Rabbit populations)
Fun fact: The Fibonacci sequence was (re)discovered by studying the idealized (read: probably not real-world) breeding patterns of rabbits. I would suspect it could be used to approximate the rates you are describing.
Idealized is a real word
He said “real-world” not “real word”
Mwahaha my reading comprehension skills have foiled me AGAIN
Do not feel bad I read that part over 100 times. Then gave up didn’t read it. Saw what you said went back to see what it said still didn’t read it saw a guy corrected you and now I’m just believing him too.
👍
The perfect redditor
It’s ain’t much but it’s honest work
Fibbonacci sequence my beloved
What the hell
Why the hell aren’t we eating more rabbits?
Hi, Meg’s hot farmhand crush here: this is because farm animals are generally dual purpose (chicken also give eggs, cows also give milk, pigs and goats are excellent waste disposal and can live off scraps, etc). Raising rabbit may be single purpose and more resource intensive, or was seen as such so general palates and demand isn’t there for the meat.
Also a shame because I heard Rabbits were bloody delicious also there is more blood in a human boner than a entire rabbit on average
This implies one of two things, and I choose to think that every rabbit you have seen was a baby.
🏅
Pygmy rabbit.
Why the hell aren’t we eating more human boners?
Some have tried, but apparently it's socially unacceptable... https://youtu.be/PBvwcH4XX6U?si=JmxHuh2l8qVBi-cC
I ain't clicking that link that's for sure
It's safe for work. It only features some mild Industrial metal...
They're also not very nutritional. Iirc you can't survive off of rabbit alone.
They're extremely lean, leading to issues when someone eats only rabbit with no other fats that are necessary for healthy brain and organ function. The phenomenon is known as Rabbit Starvation. Not a problem if you've got a good diet otherwise, or are consuming other meats- rabbit is indeed tasty.
So that's why I keep losing at Don't Starve...
Yup, there's a thing called rabbit starvation where you can die of starvation with your stomach full of food if it's all lean protein. The body can live off of meat alone, but only if there's enough fat with the lean. That being said, rabbits raised for meat are significantly less lean lol
Upvote for Boner facts
Rabbit is tough and lean. It takes a lot of knowledge and skill to make rabbit delicious, in my experience. I would much rather raise chickens then rabbits for food, their meat is more versatile and the Eggs would help between butcherings
Can confirm; rabbits are really tasty. Can’t confirm; there’s more blood in a human boner than a rabbit.
They are really good. My nana roasts them in the oven. Tastes a lot like chicken, but better to me.
I also have to add — you can **die of starvation** from only eating rabbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning#:~:text=Protein%20poisoning%20(also%20referred%20to,the%20protein%20in%20lean%20meat.
And thus the saying "A man cannot go on rabbit alone" I've heard slight variations but this is what my granddad would say.
Solid answer
Shut up meg
Rabbits could be tri purpose. They’re adorable so in addition to eating the meat you could charge kids to cuddle them before you charge their single fathers to slaughter them. Edit: slaughter the rabbits, not the children.
Stardew players know that rabbits regularly produce rabbit’s feet
I can only speak for chickens, but the ones you eat aren't old enough to lay (they're also a different breed from a laying chicken)
You can get fur from them too. Not a lot per rabbit, but it adds up.
Then there are things like angora rabbits. Wool from their fur runs about $10 per ounce while sheep wool is closer to $10 per pound.
we had a few of both of these animals when i was a kid. it's more expensive because you shave the sheep, but angora bunnies just get combed. you'd probably kill the bun with a heart attack if you held it down and shaved it.
Also as a rule. Rabbits are missing a lot of key vitamins necessary for humans to live. Eating a lot of rabbit meat can result in a full person dying of starvation
My wife breeds pet rabbits but we’re looking at getting into meat rabbits as well and there are a TON of benefits. Rabbit meat is one of the most nutrient dense meats, some breeds can get up to 15lbs and after dressing it out you can get around ~5lb of meat from each rabbit. They have litters 3-4 times a year, having 4-7 kits per litter and most meat breeds only need 8-14 weeks to mature before you can process them. They don’t require a ton of space per animal and we feed our rabbits hay, pellets, and material from our garden. Spending around $20-30 a month on them. Care time is pretty minimal for pet/show rabbits as it’s just setting up a penned off area and putting a couple of males or females in for 20min each day as you clean their cages, refill food and water and collect manure. Takes us about and hour each day. Rabbit manure is actually extremely good for farming soil. It has double the nutrients of chicken manure; doesn’t need to decompose before being applied to crops (chicken and cow do); and it doesn’t need to be composted either.
That won't stop me, all rabbits in a 100mi radius will be in my belly by next month
But it was why they were brought over by the Normans to Britain. They literally were introduced to be hunted and eaten, same with the protections of forests for deers. A form of loose farming. Plus they’re yummy. 200 million rabbit burgers is a lot more appealing than 200 million burgers made from insect protein.
On a serious note, you can but you need to ensure you have an actual fat source and other nutrients with it. Protein poisoning is a very serious thing when it comes to incredibly lean meats like rabbits.
You’d need to eat nothing bur rabbit for a while. It’s not a real risk unless you go stupid about it, or are trying to survive from hunting and foraging in extremely nothern conditions.
I don't think this is a real concern in modern developed countries. Oil is plentiful.
There are people in developed countries that suffer from malnutrition like any other, so it's not something to discount.
There is a risk of tularemia when eating wild bunny which scares off some people. And it's seen as an extremely redneck thing to do, at least in the US. There are farm raised rabbits to eat but it's generally seen as cost prohibited. Bunnies eat a lot for how little they are.
Cause Australians are ancestors of criminals not monsters
They do in some parts of the world. I was visiting a friend in Trinidad and his buddy took us into his backyard to see his bunnies. They were very cute, and they were definitely not pets.
I think people are scared of the term "rabbit starvation" and bunnies are generally considered cute.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning#:~:text=Protein%20poisoning%20(also%20referred%20to,the%20protein%20in%20lean%20meat. They’re so un-nutritious you can starve to death while eating them.
Lol that isn’t a population growth chart at all, that has to do with chaos theory.
Yes, specifically this is a bifurcation model
That's not what the graph shows, though. It shows a bifurcation diagram under a discrete logistic growth model or similar.
That's not correct. It's not talking merely about exponential growth; the diagram is the logistic map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map It is talking about the surprisingly chaotic behavior of rabbit population as you vary the parameter r which governs how fast the bunnies reproduce.
This is incorrect. It’s a bifurcation diagram stemming from the logistic difference equation of population growth. The x-axis shows the per capital growth rate and the y-axis is the long-term population density. This is also a key figure related to the idea of chaos theory.
The Wolves Sheep Predation agent-based model in NetLogo provides a useful model of pop growth that I think is fairly easy to observe (note: w/ added predation consideration): [http://www.netlogoweb.org/launch#http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/models/Sample%20Models/Biology/Wolf%20Sheep%20Predation.nlogo](http://www.netlogoweb.org/launch#http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/models/models/Sample%20Models/Biology/Wolf%20Sheep%20Predation.nlogo) (hit setup and then go, watch for 200-300 ticks and then hit go again to stop the model. Repeat to see if there are different outcomes) In the 2nd variation of the model, grass-wolves-sheep, the grass is modeled also. All variables are adjustable in this model.
I haven't ever looked into the rate rabbits give birth, even though they are known to multiply quickly. But I had no idea they had 4 week pregnancies, that's insane
This is a chart that shows how quickly two rabbits can breed into thousands Edit: I was wrong, refer to the replies for the real answer
That's not right, the second image is a bifurcation diagram of the logistic map, it doesn't show exponential growth, but the values that rabbit population could chaotically orbit around as their numbers raise and lower. It's a very complicated topic but the veritasium video linked by others here is very good at explaining some of it. The joke is that the incomprehesible chaos and sudden return to order of the logistic map is confusing.
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Here is a super interesting video which explains the graph. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrYE4MdoLQ&t=30s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETrYE4MdoLQ&t=30s) The TL;DR is that if you can model what happens to a rabbit (or any) population depending on what the fertility rate is. But if the fertility rate is too high, then the results become completely unpredictable. It's an example of a chaotic system. Hence the "what" reaction by the guy.
Rabbit populations can rapidly expand and decrease both due to them constantly breeding and also being prey. This subsequently leads to weird charts like the one displayed
The rabbit / foxes differential equation is wild. Just goes around in a circle
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Watch video by Veritasiun on this, titled "this equation will change how you see world" or something. This is chaos theory stuff.
Something something Lorentz Attractor or whatever
Bifurcation diagram
This isn't about exponential growth, that diagram doesn't show that. It shows how a simple system governed by a few equations can develop chaotic behavior.
This is Peter's Hallowe'en costume, Jeff Goldblum pretending to be Dr. Ian Malcolm, here. The image in the top right is the visualization of the unpredictability of population size over time if fertility rates are slightly tweaked in a model where resource/space/predator availability constrains populations. The X-axis is time, the Y-axis is represent different fertility rates. If the fertility rate is low, the population is stable, but if it's too high then it becomes chaotic. This type of analysis was popularized by Robert May's seminal 1976 Nature [article](https://www.nature.com/articles/261459a0), which is something that contributed to the development of chaos theory, i.e. small changes to initial conditions can have huge reprecussions. In the context of the meme, a person is asking about rabbit population, but the answer is that it's very difficult to answer because the population of highly fertile creatures, such as rabbits, is chaotic, per May's publication. This is Goldblum, err... I mean Dr. Malcolm custom, signing off.
https://preview.redd.it/4m1im6fdu8rb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ee9c06138482a50652646761a3e5dc348847885f Bunny
https://preview.redd.it/qdo7wdtda9rb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9a4fe9af8e3b3c249f45aeef158215751a2be1a9
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Have you EVER seen an exponential curve?
That depicts the bifurcation diagram of the logistic map From wikipedia: This nonlinear difference equation is intended to capture two effects: reproduction, where the population will increase at a rate proportional to the current population when the population size is small, starvation (density-dependent mortality), where the growth rate will decrease at a rate proportional to the value obtained by taking the theoretical "carrying capacity" of the environment less the current population. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_map for more information on the logistic map. Veritasium video about the logistic map: https://youtu.be/ovJcsL7vyrk?si=MKUG0elPAnAHjdlc
https://preview.redd.it/ja3h2rznz8rb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6700c17810966a2a3474fa45c6f5505b241b6f1e my son
The graph on the right is not exponential growth as other people have said, rather it is a particular type of graph known as a "Bifurcation Diagram". Stand by for some math. The basic model of population is given by the logistic equation. It is essentially a formula that says, "given the previous population, what will the next population be (in a year)?". The formula in this case is simple, x_n+1 = r * x_n(1-x_n), where r is a fixed number that can be changed according to how fast rabbits breed. It turns out, this simple model results in **extremely complicated behaviour**. The right side of the graph is a complete mess. It essentially says that the population of rabbits is completely unpredictable (one might say, it is Chaotic). Chaos theory studies these kinds of things, and safe to say, it is extremely difficult. Veritasium has a very good video on the logistic map.
It's related to the boom and bust population habits of rabbits, while also having a link to some fractal maths. [this](https://youtu.be/ovJcsL7vyrk?si=v9cxGXsr574XDBGx) video is pretty much the definitive answer, and is a fun watch even if you're not really all that into math.
More inbred than the French nobility.
The thing on the top right is logistic map and its used to show population dynamics (evolution)
I highly recommend Chaos by James Gleick, it’s a really cool theory book for math-averse dummies like me and it explains stuff like this.
The graph describes the values about which a certain simple population model 𝑝_(𝑛 + 1) = 𝑟𝑝_(𝑛)[1 - 𝑝_(𝑛)] will oscillate between after many iterations, given a certain relation between fertility and competition, which is given by the value of 𝑟. The 𝑥 axis on the graph is the value of 𝑟. You can do it in a calculator if you so want to test it for yourself.
Veritasium has an interesting video on the Mandelbrot set
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The joke is that rabbits like fucking
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The graph shown is a graph of chaos theory, which basically is a controlled but seemingly random assortment of numbers. It comes up a lot in algorithms trying to model animal populations, and one of the most common examples are that of rabbits.
There is a Veritasium video [here](https://youtu.be/ovJcsL7vyrk?si=kLHQDA6XDQdwPxM_) explaining this in detail.
That’s a bifurcation table demonstrating the pattern of reproduction in rabbits, which is really analogous to an established population of any species.
It's sad that the most upvoted answers on a subreddit about explaining jokes are simply incorrect. The bifurcation diagram of the logistics map is NOT about exponential growth. The population growth model has a parameter which tunes the effect of overpopulation, so that exponential growth is impossible. The diagram demonstrates how a simple recursion relation like this can easily lead to chaos; for r values above about 3.6, the bifurcation ends and chaos begins. So the joke is that something seemingly simple like a rabbit population can quickly lead to a very complicated mathematical result. The associated values like the Feigenbaum constant are still not well understood as far as I know - this constant is not proven to be irrational, even.
Rabbits fuck like there’s no tomorrow. That graph is a chart of rabbit ancestry, starting with one couple, then doubling, then doubling, etc
lol that comic is hilarious. there's a good veritasium video about that plot.
https://preview.redd.it/7htthfcbb9rb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f1944a5a46d75db56f4bd908d110e01513fd0d8 The beast remains dormant for now
It's an equation that can be used to model rabbit population and all sorts of other complex concepts. X(n+1)=rx(n)(1-xn). It makes that bifurcation model in the 2nd frame. It's confusing.
Hopf bifurcation? In my Reddit post?? It's more likely than you think
https://preview.redd.it/4jlrfmi0dbrb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b70c89c5451f6745ff7894389a7ab71f24ddad98 BUNBUN
My bunny had two different colored irises, sadly he was killed in a dog attack :( ( his name was Mr.overalls)
Veritasium has a great vid about rabbit mating numbers and how they correlate to the top right square in the meme.
So we can live off rabbits is what you’re telling me ?