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Most domestic female rabbits will get uterine cancer if they are not spayed. The cancer us...

Most domestic female rabbits will get uterine cancer if they are not spayed. The cancer usually appears after the age of 2 years. Describe a hypothesis for why rabbits have not evolved better defenses against uterine cancer. What do you think the average life span of a wild female rabbit might be? What do you think is a typical cause of death in wild rabbits? Why do you think that uterine cancer, and not (say) pancreatic cancer or throat cancer, is the most common cancer in female rabbits?

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