₦airaland Forum

Ewi in Igbo

godG:
Thank you. I think this addresses my reservations. I never see juvenile òkété before. Back in the days, we usually hunt big ones. Great memories!

bluebay:
Nigga. That’s a Rabbit. The tip of the tail is white

How can you call that a rabbit for Christ's sake?

It doesn't even look like a rabbit one bit. That looks more like the African white-tailed rat.

see wat buhari has cost

i chop more than 50 if this bush rat with my trap b4 mallam dem dem come steal all my traps. meeeen the meat dey sweat die... at least better than eating snake

Born2Breed:
This is rabbit and not rat. What Oyinbo call rabbit is not found in our environment, so what do we now call rabbit.

We can't use Oyinbo definition of their rabbit as our own rabbit. The white tip tail rodent is our rabbit. Shikena!

You are very correct.

Born2Breed:
This is rabbit and not rat. What Oyinbo call rabbit is not found in our environment, so what do we now call rabbit.

We can't use Oyinbo definition of their rabbit as our own rabbit. The white tip tail rodent is our rabbit. Shikena!

plz stop posting things any how u dey see rat every day yet u dey form say dis nah rabbit, no nah hare.

google rabbit n see what it looks like
google grass cutter n see what it looks like
google hare n see what it looks like
google rat n see what it looks like

haba

Born2Breed:
Bros i know, what i am saying is has our hunters ever killed or caught what they made us call a rabbit?

I studied at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta... My school dey inside thick bush.

I think I have seen something that looks extremely similar to a rabbit in the bush... Guess it was Hare, since we might not have local rabbit in this part of the world

But that stuff up there can't be called a rabbit... What do we now call this?

SirLakes:
Na wa ooo

People can't differentiate between a Rat & Rabbit

SMH

That's a ferking Rat - Okete

There is Ekute - House & church rat
There's Emon too ooo

Chai, those days, we dey Hunt dos things

I remember digging their holes and braking ant hill back then to hunt for this delicious meat #okete
Their are two species of this okete
Afintoto the grayish colored okete, neat and longer in length.
Ewu dudu- has darkish hair and not usually long in length, this specie bread more lice than Afintoto. They are the specie found in uncompleted building, block holes and close to residential areas.

I remember digging their holes and braking ant hill back then to hunt for this delicious meat #okete
Their are two species of this okete
Afintoto the grayish colored okete, neat and longer in length.
Ewu dudu- has darkish hair and not usually long in length, this specie bread more lice than Afintoto. They are the specie found in uncompleted building, block holes and close to residential areas.

What is up there is the Afintoto specie, they are neat, fast and smart.

Omo make im dy flex Dy go

O ni je ku je,

godG:
Okay then. I think the words in bold clarify it. Juvenile òkété. Lol. I know ase, sir.

Haha, no one is talking about having "the monopoly of the experience", brother. And you don't have to "burst [my] balls". What have they done to you to deserve bursting them?

It's not that deep na. Abi, there is money involved in it ni?

Thanks for clarifying.

I’m sorry bro

One love

Menance:
Yoruba people ooo

Pls this is a total rat it's called Oke in Igbo.
A confirmed rodent. Many illiterates on Nairaland calling it rabbit.
So your people take rats as pet

Nope, it's called Eyi ani in Igbo, Pouch rat in English.. They are different from the diseased infested city rats known as Oke in Igbo, you find them mainly in farms where they burrow into the soil.. They are docile and nocturnal and very easy to catch due to there poor eye sight especially in daylight.. They feed on tubers..

For those that cannot research

BluntBoy:
How can you call that a rabbit for Christ's sake?

It doesn't even look like a rabbit one bit. That looks more like the African white-tailed rat.

Well, we called this one rabbit because it’s Disease free, neat and doesn’t feed on anything just like the Normal Rat we all know . This rabbit mainly feed on grains and nuts

Them dey eat house rat??. Na wa o

Born2Breed:
For 9ja na rabbit we dey call am.

Oyinbo nor fit dey name everything for us.

We call it Ofen'tor in Benin.

Na so them name one rodent guinea pig.

Call small scotland and wales wey nor reach 5 million each nation but call yoruba and igbo of 50 million each tribe.

Discover our own river call am river negro(niger),river wey we take dey bath and drink from many centuries ago.

See our own rabbit and call am pouch rat.


@op na rabbit you chop so, correct bush meat with a distinctive white tip tail.

according to my lecturer in uniben
.......“maaad man" lol...
i like your style original....

Baroba:
Nope, it's called Eyi ani in Igbo, Pouch rat in English.. They are different from the diseased infested city rats known as Oke in Igbo, you find them mainly in farms where they burrow into the soil.. They are docile and nocturnal and very easy to catch due to there poor eye sight especially in daylight.. They feed on tubers..

Ok man

See as the the thing lie down and spread legs like my landlord's wife. If you know you know

Mr chilaka Martin, Hw did dis got hiaaa

Bouncingbabyboy:
that's a lie.... It's called African giant rat

can't see the tail, rat doesn't have white tail, it's rabbit to that have white tail oga

bluebay:
Well, we called this one rabbit because it’s Disease free, neat and doesn’t feed on anything just like the Normal Rat we all know . This rabbit mainly feed on grains and nuts

OK. But you people should stop calling it rabbit. Rabbit is a totally different order from rats.

Nairaland Twitter dumping ground

Born2Breed:
...and you parents where celebrating when they gave birth to you?

Don't argue blindly as he rightly said.

That is neither rat nor rabbit.

It is a pouched rat.

Just to make things easy, type rabbit on google, check the under image section and tell whether any of the images you see looks like what the OP killed.

Cluv:
can't see the tail, rat doesn't have white tail, it's rabbit to that have white tail oga

Even with all the pictures up there you're still arguing

Nawa, you call a vermin rabbit and call a civet leopard or tiger when Google is there??


Gosh!! The level of illiteracy in this country is really alarming

How can you guys call that a rabbit Please it's a rat. Rabbits and hares have bigger heads, shorter tails, longer ears... Infact they are generally bigger.

Born2Breed:
This is rabbit and not rat. What Oyinbo call rabbit is not found in our environment, so what do we now call rabbit.

We can't use Oyinbo definition of their rabbit as our own rabbit. The white tip tail rodent is our rabbit. Shikena!

Chai! You f up, how you go call this one rabbit? U no go better nursery school....

These giant rats carry deadly diseases such as rabies which you electronic generation kids do not have immunity against, like your oldefolks did.

Eat this thing with care.

a

Born2Breed:
Bros i know, what i am saying is has our hunters ever killed or caught what they made us call a rabbit?

A while ago, i met a young man who was so obstinate, the like of which i believed i would never encounter again. Then, this thread comes up and there you are, dispensing an immeasurable level of insistence on stupidity. Its almost as though if you permitted yourself to think, you'd hurt yourself.
Perhaps i am wrong and you would truly, maybe you are better off enlightened as much as you are.

Cluv:
can't see the tail, rat doesn't have white tail, it's rabbit to that have white tail oga

looool

Born2Breed:
The only rabbit I know are reared and has never been part of our habitat. What the oyinbo call Rabbit is similar to Hare over here.

Stop saying rubbish. Your statements make no sense at all and portrays ignorance of the highest order.. There are rabbits in Nigeria and there are rats. What the OP killed is a rat and its the one we eat. The white ended tail tip is how its known.