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When they are calm, or sleeping a rabbit will lay the ears down. At this time they don't want to here. I f startled the ears go up to here. Some rabbits, (flopped eared) are born with long ears that hang down. This is because of the breed.

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nerves in the rabbit ears cause it to stick up, and allows the rabbit to hear and react to very senitive sounds.

Rabbits have cartilage in their ears that helps them retain their shape and stand up to filter in all sounds.

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the ear that goes up and down is the that hear the predater will busy eating or relaxing

Rabbit ears are normally erect while they are alert for predators or any other loud thing. If one is up and one is down it could be any of these:

1. This is a cross breed rabbit - 1/2 up ear breed 1/2 lop ear breed

2. This is a lop ear with poor ear carriage

3. This rabbit has damage to the cartilage in one of it's ears.

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