Because I know I know somebody who'd know...

[rushthatspeaks]

Does anyone have a rec for a good book covering the reproductive endocrinology of rabbits? I'm looking at the chemical processes by which they reabsorb their young in times of famine. The Internet is full of abstracts, but the actual papers seem to be in journals requiring subscription. I can understand medical abbreviations and jargon; I'm just having trouble figuring out precisely where to look for a book that will pin down the info I need. (Veterinary medicine? Endocrinology? Human infertility research? All of the above?)

This is going into the underlayer of scientific background for probably the only hard sf piece I've ever written, so I'm anxious to get it as right as I possibly can. (This would be my short story titled, you guessed it, 'Rabbits', and the worldbuilding is ninety percent finished. But that ten percent... is getting technical.)

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Maybe this?

Andersson, Mats. Studies of the reproductive biology of the wild rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, in southern Sweden (Lund, Sweden : University of Lund, Dept. of Zoology, 1980)

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[sovay]

I know zip about the reproductive biology of rabbits, but we could hit the library (or, if they won't let you in, I could hit the library and return with my prey) when you're here this weekend.

[weirdquark]

They won't let her in, but they'll let me in. I probably have access to articles too.

[orawnzva.livejournal.com]

Can't help with the rabbits, but I do have a weird-reproductive-biology bit of world building of my own that you might find intriguing. Should I mention it here?

[wayman.livejournal.com]

I suppose listening to "Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits (Let's Do It All Day Long)" by the Magnetic Fields isn't exactly endocrinologically helpful, but it might, y'know, set the mood? :-)

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Are you near a state university at all? Mine will let members of the public come in and read books, though not check them out.

These two from the catalog looked good:
Reproduction of the wild rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) under varying degrees of confinement / I. Parer, W. R. Sobey and D. Conolly (Australians, who ought to know)

The Physiology of reproduction / editors-in-chief, Ernst Knob Neill ; associate editors, Gilbert S. Greenwald, Clement L. Markert, Donald W. Pfaff (2 volumes, almost sure to have something)

[jedibl.livejournal.com]

If the articles are available electronically, and from journals that UW subscribes to, I could probably get you copies.

[eredien]

R.M. Lockley's The Private Life of the Rabbit--Richard Adams recommends it in his acknowledgements section.

Also, have you tried asking SR?

[eredien]

PS - if you don't send a copy to me the minute you're done, I shall cry; I've been wanting to read it for forever.