Time Travel & Rabbits: Predisposed or Dharma Festish?

[D-Roc]

I guess this is more a general question considering bunny rabbits has been referenced in LOST for a long time now, but seeing as it was specifically mentioned in this episode, i'll post this here.

So..why did Dharma have such a facination with bunnies/rabbits? I'm thinking that there must be an underlying reason as to why they used rabbits for their time-travelling experiments? I mean why not hamsters or mice? Faraday had no quarms using Eloise



Are rabbits predisposed to the effects of time-travel or high levels of electromagnetism or something?

Perhaps it's to do with fertility, in that we know the island hs issues in that field, and what with rabbits being extremely fertile animals.........perhaps there's something in that?

Perhaps the rabbit connection is purely pop-culture hat-tipping, with Alice in Wonderland being a favourite point of reference for the Lost creators, and as we all know Alice in Wonderland has big time-travel context..in particular the rabbit hole.

But then there's also Donnie Darko -the classic film which also features heavy on the time-travel and the rabbits. Again, pop-culture hat-tipping, or is there more meaning to why the Dharma-freaks were so big on bunnies?

So what gives Dharma..?

[monster-eats-pilot]

There's also Watership Down.

and lol 'Dharma Fetish'. But I don't know. Maybe it is to do with the fertility. Then again rats/mice breed extremely fast.

[Magnovey Phoenix]

Originally Posted by D-Roc

Perhaps it's to do with fertility, in that we know the island hs issues in that field, and what with rabbits being extremely fertile animals.........perhaps there's something in that?

Dharma probably used all kinda of animals, but we only got a chance to see rabbits and polar bears. I mean, how did those boars ended up on Island? Not to mention birds and insects. I still remember that strange bird in S1 when six of them went to Black Rock...
Rabbits are animals most suitable for experiments and testings. That's why so many companies uses them in their researches.

Originally Posted by D-Roc

Perhaps the rabbit connection is purely pop-culture hat-tipping, with Alice in Wonderland being a favourite point of reference for the Lost creators, and as we all know Alice in Wonderland has big time-travel context..in particular the rabbit hole.

I like this ides. This could be like the game with the names of the characters. Who knows...

[D-Roc]

Good shout on the Watership Down reference, MEP.

Originally Posted by Magnovey Phoenix

Dharma probably used all kinda of animals, but we only got a chance to see rabbits and polar bears. I mean, how did those boars ended up on Island? Not to mention birds and insects. I still remember that strange bird in S1 when six of them went to Black Rock...
Rabbits are animals most suitable for experiments and testings. That's why so many companies uses them in their researches.

I think the bears ended up on the island in much the same way that Ben ended up in the desert - I think there are certain points or places in the world that are linked to the island via a portal or time-tunnel.

We've seen a few insects - notably the one that Arzt had in his jar (or am I imagining that?) and the ones that initiated the demise of Nikki and Paulo. Didn't Sawyer also kill a cricket at one point?

Yeah, that Hurley bird was crazy - I don't know what was up with that - either a Dharma experiment or a bird from another time, perhaps?..