Domesticated rabbit

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Confirmed: The rabbit bear kills and eats was domesticated.

The rabbit bear killed was large and white, not small and brown. Cottontails lose their winter coat in the late winter/early spring; the rabbit should have been pure brown by then. They don't even get that white in the winter. Wild cottontails don't typically get that large, either; the desert cottontail], native to the Sierras, adults reach 33-43 cm long (1'1" to 1'5") and 1.5kg (3.3 lbs). Going on a metric of the rabbit being the length that Bear's chest is tall, and assuming that Bear is around 6' tall, that would mean the rabbit is about 2' in length.

On the other hand, it's a very good match for several domesticated breeds, such as the New Zealand White.

Update: The edited version removes the fake "kill" scene, and admits that they brought the rabbit along (which would almost certainly mean that it was a domesticated breed). You can see the clip at YouTube - Man vs. Wild -Hunting Rabbit, around 0:51 "A rabbit or squirrel is not in any great danger at the moment. If you're luckier than me, and you've got a rabbit, you can start a fire without even a flint." Around 3:12 mark, he says in voice over "We've got hold of a rabbit, so I can show you how to cook it, in the Wild." The description of the clip still says "Bear Grylls is lost in Sierra Nevada, and manages to catch and cook a rabbit for dinner", even though the clip reveals the truth (he just cooked it).

[edit] Analysis

Support: Given that they shipped the horses in, is it that unreasonable to believe that they did the same with the rabbit?

Support: Why else would they deliberately keep things blurry in the footage used for the episode?

Oppose: In some areas, rabbits don't recognize people as a danger. You can approach quite closely.

Support: Does that change the size and color of the rabbit?

Support: A crew member killed a rabbit accidentally when a rock he stepped on loosened and fell off a small hill crushing its legs. After administering a coup de grace, the producers then brought in a rabbit and instructed Bear to hunt and kill it. Bear did so, easily of course. Both rabbits were eaten so as not to waste, Bear is not allowed to discuss it. Footage was used with inverted colors and blurred edges to easier distinguish the rabbit from the field grass.

Oppose: The cameraman story only verifies that it is easy to kill rabbits where they were filming.

Support: Does anyone notice how efficient a killer Bear is compared to Survivorman Les Stroud? Les can spend a week somewhere and only find a handfull of berries. Maybe he'll catch a turtle in a complicated trap that takes a day to work. Bear gets food everyday, even though he is always on the move. Shenanigans!!!!

Oppose: Where did the story of a crewman killing a rabbit come from? Sounds fake to me.

Support: Are you retarded? Look at the pictures.

Oppose: PICS OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN. If you analyze the footage, you'd notice that the circle around the rabbit distorted the colors. I would honestly /love/ to see the source for the crewman story, but until then, its a lot of hearsay and your evidence has as many holes as the show itself.

Support: Hello, they confirmed this one. They cut it from the re-edit and said they brought a rabbit along. Have you not bothered to compare the re-edits where they removed a lot of the fakery with the originals? You're right about one thing: *it didn't happen* the way the show initially said it did.

"Neutral: Everything is confirmed. Nothing ever has that official confirmation backed up, BUT HEY! It says the word confirmed next to it! It MUST be true!