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Asked by: Sadie Groszmann
medical health bone and joint conditionsHow many ribs do rabbits have on each side?
Also question is, how many ribs does a bunny have?
Supporting the pectoral girdle, the thoracic cagealsoprovides attachments to the muscles of the head, neck, thorax,andabdomen. New Zealand white rabbits have been found to have 12or13 ribs based on the individual'sgeneticmakeup.
Then, how many bones do rabbits have?
Sagebrush wrote: If we are going with all landbasedmammals with paws have the same number of bones,thena rabbit would have approximately 206+ thetailbones of 16. With this logic we are looking atarabbit having 222 bones in theirbodies.
The number of pairs of ribs in mammals variesfrom9 (whale) to 24 (sloth); of true ribs, from 3 to10pairs.