If ever there was a species born to show jump, it's the rabbit - and here, in a GIF currently topping the Reddit hot chart, one fine young cottontail shows the other bunnies how it's done.

Yep, rabbit show jumping. Strange as it might seem, competitive hopping has been around for a while, rabbit jumping started in Scandinavia in the 1970s and now it's catching on in Australia.

Rabbits, as most are aware, like to hop. But it turns out that they also enjoy doing so competitively. Kaninhop, a hobby from Scandinavia, involves setting up mini-jumps and other barriers for pet ...

The president of the Jubilant Jumpers Rabbit Club is bringing rabbit-jumping to the area. "I'm trying to take rabbits in a different direction," said Schieckoff, who owns a rabbit named Bobby.