how come the easter bunny can have eggs but other bunnies cant?
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it doesnt have eggs.  it hides eggs it steals from chickens and paints.
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We also call him the 'Easter Bunny' in Australia. Also we have an 'Easter Bilby', but I believe that the choclate marketers here are the only ones cashing in on this their creation.\n\nPersonally I call him 'Ostara'. (The one who brings eggs for health, wealth, and prosperity - and as a sign of fertility)\n\nHey 'bored', I live in Australia and have never seen a 'Easter Bunyip', where the hell do you by one of those.
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I've know about the pagan link between the Easter Bunny and fertility and such for a while.  Here's some other websites I've found:\nhttp://www.easterbunnys.net/easterbunnyhistory.htm\nhttp://wilstar.com/holidays/easter.htm\nhttp://www.chiff.com/a/easter-bunny.htm\n\nPretty much, it seems we get the word Easter from the German holiday that used to take place at about the same time of year.  Easter falls close to Passover - the story of Jesus on the cross takes place in the new testament immediately following the last supper, which was a Passover feast.\n\nBasically, the early Christians borrowed symbols from pagan religions for all of their holidays.  Many Christmas traditions stem from these rituals as well.
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Easter was a pagen holiday, for fertility. I know this is cliche, but have you ever heard the term "Multipling like rabbits"? Ergo - Bunnies. I am not entirely certain that is why the bunny is there, but I am certain easter was a fertility holiday.
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There are more at Easter if you count the chocolate ones.\n\nThere are over 40 breeds of rabbits in the world each producing 4 - 8 liters a year.  You do the math...
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A hen can only lay an egg if it has been fertilised. Unfertilised eggs (ova) remain within the egg. Only if the ova are fertilised do they progress further, to enclose the zygote/embryo within a calcified shell (egg) which is then laid.\nTherefore its is impossible for a laid egg to be haploid (n) because such an egg just wouldnt be laid.
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I circumvent the problem with the Easter Bunny because I own a pet rabbit and I named him Easter just for this reason.  Therefore I can say to them THAT BUNNY IS THE EASTER BUNNY and it's not a lie and I hide the bunny in the dresser drawers on easter with some candy and then when the kids find him I say that he has been hiding candy and they caught him in the act!  Well I guess the second part is a little lie.  But they love it.  Ignorance is bliss and the dumber you are the happier you are, it's true.  We'll have to go back to our bible quotes and remember that:\n\n"And yea I gave my heart to no wisdom\nand to no science or folly\nAnd I perceived that all is vanity \nand vexation of spirit\nFor in much wisdom,\nis much grief\nAnd he that increaseth knowledge\nincreaseth sorrow."\n\nTherefore I say if it brings them joy lie away.  You wouldn't tell your 5 year old they were adopted would you?
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The association of eggs with the Easter Bunny is actually a recent one. It seems to be the result of an ad campaign by European candy makers who wanted to advertise their product. The egg, long a symbol of fertility, had long been a traditional staple of Easter celebrations. The pairing of the Easter Egg and the Easter Bunny at the end of the nineteenth century was not only a stroke of marketing genius, but also well-founded in the traditions of the past.
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because they do - directly and indirectly.\nEaster Eggs:\nAccording to the ancient tradition of the Eastern Orthodox Church , Mary Magdalene was a wealthy woman from whom Christ expelled seven "demons." On Easter morning she was the first to bear witness to his resurrection. She is called "Equal to the Apostles." The Eastern tradition tells us that after the Ascension she journeyed to Rome where she was admitted to the court of Tiberius Caesar because of her high social standing. After describing how poorly Pilate had administered justice at Jesus' trial, she told Caesar that Jesus had risen from the dead. To help explain his resurrection she picked up an egg from the dinner table. Caesar responded that a human being could no more rise from the dead than the egg in her hand turn red. The egg turned red immediately, which is why red eggs have been exchanged at Easter for centuries in the Byzantine East. \nEaster Bunny:\nThe day we celebrate as Easter was formerly a pagan holiday. The church decided to set the date for the resurrection of Jesus at the spring solstice, and then named it for a Celtic pagan feast day they wished to eradicate. It was named for Eostre, the goddess of the spring, and fertility. She was depicted with a white rabbit (the Easter Bunny).
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some frogs, fish and shellfish are capable of this.\n\ni dont believe that any mammals can.\n\nIt seems to me that the ones that can do this are usually they type that release their eggs and spem with no consideration of who fertilizes them
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The colors of the eggs themsleves have about as much to do with Jesus as the bunny that delivers them.
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Because it they didn't they would just be called a bun....\n\n;-)
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It is the continuation of folk traditions from the days when Christianity was not the biggest religion in Europe.\n\nThe rabbit is the sacred animal of the Goddess Ostara (Eostre), Goddess of the Spring Equinox, for whom Easter is named (nothing Christian about the name "Easter").  The rabbit symbolizes fertility.  The male rabbit who lays eggs breaks the laws of species (mammals don't lay eggs) and sex (males don't either), to symbolize the power of the Goddess of Spring Fertility to transcend the limitations of the world.  The eggs are symbols of the soul, and the coloring of them goes back to the pre-Christian worship, at the Spring Equinox, of the sacred relationship of the soul to the fertility of the natural world.\n\nLike the Christmas Tree, when Europeans became Christian, they couldn't bear to part with their traditional folkways, so they put a thin veneer of Christianity on top.
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As a young child I was likely to find my Easter basket hidden behind a chair or some other easy to find place.\n\n One Easter though the bunny decided to give us a challenge and hid one in the dishwasher (clean, no dirty dishes in there) and the other in a clothes hamper that had never been used for dirty clothes. \n\nMass hysteria broke out as our parents heard our sobs that there were no baskets to be found, lol. With children of different ages you might want to color code the eggs, treats, and hide the ones for the older one in more difficult places. \n\nI once made a hunt for some nieces with written clues in rhyme to find the treats. At the location of the next treat was another slip of paper with a clue in rhyme for the next one, and so forth. Some treats were inside, some outside. They had a lot of fun, and so did I watching them.
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richard is right.\n\nTo boys4ever: How can you have a creature without an egg to hatch it?  Unless, of course, you are suggesting that some chicken like creature gave live birth to the first chicken!
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"Easter" is a variation of the name "Astarte" - a fertility goddess of some ancient civilization (Babylonian?  Assyrian?  Other?).  What better symbol of fertility than bunnies and eggs (I don't know why we dye them and hide them)?
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The main thing that makes bunny breeding different is that the females are induced ovulators.  This means they don't come into heat; the act of mating causes them to produce eggs.  A female can get pregnant again within hours after giving birth.\n\nMoreover, their gestation period is short, their litters are large, and they become sexually mature quickly.  Result:  Lots and lots of rabbits!\n\nIn theory, a single female rabbit could have up to 95 billion descendants during her lifetime!\n\nThus, it's not only that they can have sex more often, but also that produce more offspring.