Intimate Pleasure & Procreation Day

IP&P Day! A celebration of enthusiasm & fecundity as exemplified by Rabbits.

On Morning Amble

It was around this time, in the northern hemisphere, when people recognized the arrival of spring. Unlike christians, many enjoyed multiple intimate relations and celebrated the natural attractions and new growth everywhere seen in nature.

Rabbits have, for eons, been revered for their amazing procreativeness. Below is an excerpt from this article....

A single female rabbit can have 1-14 babies per litter, but let's be conservative and say that the average litter size is six. We'll also make the assumption (remember, this is all hypothetical) that only half of those are females, and we will calculate the potential fecundity of our bunny population only from these hypothetical three females per litter, since females are the limiting factor in a population when it comes to making babies. We're also assuming no mortality, since we're talking about potential reproduction with no set environmental carrying capacity. (Since a rabbit can easily live seven years and beyond, this isn't unreasonable.)

From ABQ yard

Rabbit gestation lasts 28-31 days, and 31.581288,-109.523916 they are induced ovulators, mother rabbits can be impregnated again within minutes of giving birth. This means that mama could, hypothetically, have one litter per month if she is constantly with a male rabbit. (Poor mama!)

If our "starter bunny" begins reproducing at six months of age (again, not an unreasonable estimate), and has babies for seven years, then by the end of the first year:

One mother rabbit x 3 female babies x 12 months = 36 female babies (plus your original mama makes 37) Let's add the new babies to the reproductive population at the beginning of the following year. At that point, their average age would be six months--the time of their first litter. (This works if you consider this to be averaging the new females' reproductive output.) If--starting at the beginning of Year Two --each of the Year One female rabbits produces an average of 3 female offspring per month, then by the

• End of Year Two:
  37 mother rabbits x 3 female babies x 12 months = 1332 female babies
  (plus your original 37 will equal a total of 1369 total)
• End of Year Three:
  1369 mother rabbits x 3 female babies x 12 months = 49,284 female babies
  (49,284 + last year's 1369 = 50,653 total)
• End of Year Four:
  50,653 x 3 x 12 months = 1,823,508 female babies
  (1,823,508 + last year's 49,284 = 1,872,792 total)
• End of Year Five:
  1,823,508 x 3 x 12 months = 67,420,512 female babies
  (67,420,412 + last year's 1,872,792 = 69,293,304 total)
• End of Year Six:
  69,293,304 x 3 x 12 months = 2,494,558,944 female babies
  (2,494,558,944 + last year's 69,293,304= 2,563,852,248 total)
• Year Seven:
  2,563,853,248 x 3 x 12 = 92,298,716,930 female babies
  (92,298,716,930 + last year's 2,563,852,248 = 94,862,569,180!)

That's nearly 95 billion female rabbits in seven years!

Remember that we haven't even included the males. On average, there should be as many males born in each litter as females. We didn't include them in the multiplication, since "it takes two to tango". But each year, as many males as females are born. So that adds up to another...

• Year Two: 1332
• Year Three: 49,284
• Year Four: 1,823,508
• Year Five: 67,420,512
• Year Six: 2,494,558,944
• Year Seven: 92,298,716,930

Add that to the females, and it means that first mama and her female descendants will have produced

184,597,433,860 rabbits in seven years
END OF EXCERPT

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Big Rocks

Though "making like rabbits" was once a popular phrase, these days, with 9B humans and a doubling rate of somewhere between 20 & 40 years, it's hopefully about the pleasures rather than making more humans.

It's spring! Let the festivities begin!!

Image co-opted from HERE.