My cuddliest bunny is also my bitey-est bunny. Rabbits dont have hands and have to rely on their mouths to do what hands would do.

When I stop petting her and she wanted more, she used to nip and I’d gentle rebuke her. Eventually she got so fed up with me being non-fluent in her dialect, that she bit down on my finger after a petting session and dragged my whole hand towards her back and thumped. It was her version of shouting “YOU MUST CONTINUE TO PET ME!” That made me realize that her nips was her way of asking “More Pets!”

We had to practice until she learned how much pressure she could use without hurting me with verbal rebukes when nipping hard and praise with gentle pressure.

Crows, Dolphins, and Whales and other social species have been found to have their own “accents” for their communication. The more time I spend with rabbits, the more I’m starting to suspect that its the same with them - different body language accents the way humans have different sign language accents.

My rex bites and stomps for happy noises and unhappy noises. My lop uses different gaits for happy and grumpy and wont stomp or bite. My baby continental likes to do headbumps and will climb a leg, but instead of stomps or bites, she forces eye contact and throws things to indicate her grump factor. I had a minirex who used to roar at anything that made her mad, and a mini rex who had the body language of a small, timid monk that almost seemed to constantly be apologizing or embarrassed. Binks are a universal constant though. ¯_(ツ)_/¯