Re: what is the difference and similarities between rabbit and a grasshopper

	Well there are some similarities, but lots of differences! Lets look at 
the similarities, first. Both the rabbit and the grasshopper use they back 
legs to push them off the ground quickly especially when threaten by danger. 
The hind legs of both the rabbit and the grasshopper are designed to do this 
in a hopping motion. The back legs in both are larger, longer and more 
powerful than the other legs.
	Another they also have a similar diet.  grasshopper eat grass and so do 
rabbits. 
	Grasshoppers have really good eyes and can see very well. Rabbits can 
see very well too. Grasshoppers can be green to blend in with green grass, 
but also can be a mottled brown and blend in with gravel or dirt. Rabbits 
are brown to blend in with the surrounding and can turn white to blend in 
with snow. Grasshopper can't really change their color.
	Both rabbits and grasshoppers try to keep very still when they see 
danger and then leap away at the very last moment. Then they either keep 
going hopping away as fast as they can or stop and try to blend in again 
hoping they were not seen when they stopped.
	Both grasshoppers and rabbits clean themselves by using theor mouths. 
grasshoppers pull their legs throught their mouth to clean them and rabbit 
lick and clean their fur with their mouths.
	And lastly, because grasshoppers have incomplete metamorphosis, baby 
grasshoppers look like grasshoppers only smaller. And baby rabbits look like 
rabbits only smaller.

But then there are big differences, Grasshopper have their skeleton on the 
outside and rabbits have their's on the inside. Rabbits are warm blooded and 
grasshoppers are coldblooded. Grasshoppers don't usually live more than a 
year, rabbits live much longer. Mother rabbits care for their young but 
grasshopper just lay eggs and leave. Rabbits give birth to live young and 
feed them milk. Rabbits have fur on the outside too. That is why we call 
rabbits mammals and grasshoppers insects.