Thumper (Bambi) is a rabbit.

Hazel (Watership down) is a hare.

My dog once caught what I thought was a diseased rabbit (because how else could my fluffball catch a rabbit?), but now I'm thinking it was just a hare

Looked like it had just come back from the ethereal plane, its eyes were so wide

Hares are like what rabbits become after they go through what Aimo Koivunen did.

A scout on the Finno-Russian border, their group got attacked by the Soviets, they fled and because skiing is hard fucking work, he got fatigued but couldn't stop, so he decided to take some of the Pervitin (meth) he had been issued. He couldn't get a single tablet out with his frozen hand and accidentally took his squads entirely dose.

Was gone for a week. Skiid for 400km. Ate pinecombs and one siberian jay, raw. Pulse 200 and weighed 43kg (95lbs) when admitted to a hospital.

In their cosmic insanity hares will fuck up your garden if you don't set up defenses.

Hares look pretty similar to cats anatomy wise - minus the ears and tail of course. I wonder what cats think of them. Imagine a human with ridiculously long ears who hops to get around. I'd be scared shitless.

Meanwhile in Overgrowth:

Jackalopes'll fuck you up, I tell you hwhat.

This is likely what Tim the Enchanter actually saw, which he misidentified as "just a bunny". We can infer this from the aftermath that followed.

https://xkcd.com/1682/

wot wot

Watership down! I shout as a naval vessel lists amidst the smoke, wholly misunderstanding the title of the book

Huh. Until right now, I thought rabbit and hare were synonyms.

When I saw my first European Hare, I noted how not-cute and cuddly it looked... and thought to call them "hares" to denote to myself that they were not the cute rabbits I was familiar with. But now I feel dumb because that's literally what it is.