Most rabbits hop, but some can swim! The marsh rabbit, found in the swamps of the southeast United States, will often swim to find food or avoid predators. When on land, they walk by placing each foot down alternately like a cat which helps them navigate quickly through dense marsh brush.
This video captures this unique behaviour in great detail:
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The young jackrabbit leaned to the ground, as if something made him uncomfortable, but without keeping his serious gaze fixed on the old rabbit.
The rabbit watched him carefully and said:
-In all these seasons, I never saw one like you. You're not from around here, are you? Where are you from?
-Your hunch is true, sir," he answered quietly, "I come from another place, one far away. Where the climate is always warm and the land is dry, all the plants are thorny and you must manage to eat and drink well.
-I guessed as much, apart from your extravagant appearance you have a different temperament from the rest of Jackrabbits.
The Jackrabbit smiled quietly.
-Yes, a little... you are certainly different from the rabbits I know. They seldom touch water, if not to drink, of course.
(Idk these two actually never met bc their habitats are different. But have one Antelope Jackrabbit and Marsh rabbit ocs revamped, their names still unknown.)
Mammals of the Eastern United States. Second Edition. Written by William J. Hamilton Jr. and John O. Whitaker Jr. Illustration by Earl Lincoln Poole. 1979.