--- title: Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In Zootopia, Nick Wilde the fox is a sly trickster and Judy Hopps the rabbit is a brave police officer, and the two become best friends. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits # Zootopia: real foxes and rabbits Lesson 141 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/0/) — In Zootopia, Nick Wilde the fox is a sly trickster and Judy Hopps the rabbit is a brave police officer, and the two become best friends. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/1/) — Real red foxes are not sly villains: they are careful, curious animals that learn fast and eat almost anything, which is why they live everywhere from the Arctic to the middle of London. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/2/) — Real rabbits are not brave officers either: they are shy, watchful prey that hear danger early with their big ears and bolt before a fox gets close. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/3/) — Picture a city garden at midnight: a fox trots past the bins and somewhere a rabbit freezes, then zigzags away. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/4/) — In real life that is a hunt, not a friendship, and both animals are only doing what keeps them alive. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/5/) — Red foxes are clever and adaptable; «sly» is a human story, and they eat mice, rabbits, worms, insects, fruit and scraps. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/6/) — Red foxes live on more continents than any other wild meat-eating mammal, and many live in cities such as London. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/7/) — City foxes are active mostly at night and find food in gardens and bins, so they need smaller areas than country foxes. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/8/) — A fox hunting in snow listens for mice underneath, leaps high and dives head first onto them; one unproven idea says foxes use the Earth's magnetism to aim. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/9/) — The scream heard on winter nights is often a fox calling to find a mate or mark its patch; foxes also bark, yelp and chatter, which is called gekkering. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/10/) — Fennec foxes of the Sahara have enormous ears full of blood vessels that give off heat, and the ears also hear prey moving underground. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/11/) — Foxes belong to the dog family but have vertical slit pupils like cats, which close tight in sun and open wide in the dark. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/12/) — Rabbits have excellent hearing; each long ear can turn on its own to catch sounds from any side, and the ears help them cool down. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/13/) — A mother rabbit can have several litters a year with about 4 to 8 babies each, and because so many rabbits are eaten by hunters, lots of babies keep their numbers up, so in Zootopia Judy's 275 brothers and sisters are a joke built on a real fact. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/14/) — Real rabbits are shy and freeze or run at the first sign of danger; they can sprint at about 50 km per hour and zigzag. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/16/) — Rabbits do eat crops and young vegetables, so farmers see them as pests and fence their fields. - ← previous: [Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/) - next →: [Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)