萬萬沒想到：小兔兔的真愛不是胡蘿蔔！

Rabbits and carrots go together like bears and honey. Bears really do love honey, but most people know that they like to eat more than just that.
兔子吃胡蘿蔔就跟小熊愛吃蜂蜜是一個道理。小熊的確愛吃蜂蜜，而我們也知道它們愛吃的不只是蜂蜜。

Rabbits also enjoy a whole variety of food, but unfortunately some people think they can live exclusively off carrots. In reality, bunnies don’t eat root vegetables in the wild, so things like carrots should only be an occasional treat. The RSPCA found that 11% of all pet rabbits have tooth decay as a result of hitting the orange stuff too hard.
兔子同樣也愛吃很多其他的食物。但不幸的是，人們覺得兔子只需要吃胡蘿蔔就可以了。事實上，兔子是不吃野生塊根類蔬菜的，所以胡蘿蔔之類的只是偶爾才吃一回。英國防止虐待動物協會（RSPCA）指出，11%的寵物兔牙齒退化，就是啃太多的胡蘿蔔所致。

So if rabbits don’t eat carrots in the wild, where did the idea come from? Most blame Bugs Bunny.
如果說兔子不吃野生胡蘿蔔，那麼爲什麼我們會覺得胡蘿蔔是它們的真愛呢? 大多數人都覺得，要怪啊就怪兔八哥。

While many thought Bugs got the habit from his furry peers, he actually adapted the carrot munching from the King of Hollywood, Clark Gable. Creators Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, and Bob Clampett have explained that Bugs’ trademark love of carrots was inspired by a scene in the 1934 film, It Happened One Night. In it, Gable’s character leans against a fence and eats a carrot while explaining the rules of hitchhiking. In 1940, Bugs Bunny made his debut in a cartoon called “A Wild Hare”.
雖然很多人認爲兔八哥吃胡蘿蔔的習慣是跟它的同類學的，但其實啊它是跟好萊塢之王—克拉克·蓋博學的。製作人查克·瓊斯，福瑞茲·弗裏倫，鮑伯·可蘭培德解釋道，兔八哥吃胡蘿蔔的標誌性愛好，其靈感來源於1934年的一部影片《一夜風流》中的一個場景。該場景中，蓋博所飾的角色一邊倚着柵欄啃胡蘿蔔一邊解釋搭便車的規則。1940年，兔八哥在動畫電影“一隻小野兔（A Wild Hare）”中首次登上熒屏。

Today, most children have never heard of Clark Gable and attribute the carrot eating to normal rabbit behavior. If you have a pet rabbit, read up on the proper foods to feed it—carrots are like candy for rabbits, so they should be given in moderation!
現在，大多數小孩都不知道克拉克·蓋博這一號人物，所以他們都覺得胡蘿蔔就是兔子的真愛。如果你也有一隻小兔子，餵它點兒更好的食物。胡蘿蔔對兔子來說就像是糖果，所以還是有節制爲好。