This chapter gives a general and brief description of the morphological and functional characteristics of the digestive system of the rabbit that may be important for understanding several digestive processes. The changes in these characteristics from the time of weaning until attainment of maturity are discussed.

This chapter gives a description of the morphological and functional characteristics of the digestive system of the rabbit that are important for understanding the rabbit's digestive processes that will be explained in the next chapters and explains how these characteristics change from the critical phase of weaning until attainment of maturity.