HERE’S a bunny who bucks the usual practice of hopping from place to place — by walking on its front paws.
The sauteur d’Alfort breed, also known as the Alfort Jumping Rabbit, is incapable of back leg bounds.
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Scientists have now discovered the reason and it’s down to a single gene in the nervous system of the rabbit.
A mutation in the gene prevents the spinal cord from co-ordinating limbs to hop.
Miguel Carneiro, from the Universidade do Porto in Portugal and colleagues in Sweden made the finding.
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He said that, at a slow walk, the rabbits are indistinguishable from others.
However, when they try to go faster by jumping, they over-flex their rear legs — and at the wrong time.
So when it comes to running they’re hop-less.
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