有一句俗語叫做“瘋狂如三月的兔子”，說的是在早春的時候，野兔變得瘋狂的事情。那時雄兔為了與雌兔進行交配而彼此激烈爭斗。而同時，雌兔在向雄兔屈服前通常又會不斷拒絕雄兔，使得配對的行為看起來象一場瘋狂的舞蹈，這樣的場面讓早期的觀察者認為是春季的到來讓野兔們發了狂。

　　There is a saying called "mad as a March hare", said that earlier in the spring, the crazy things. When the male rabbits for mating and fierce fighting each other with female rabbits. At the same time, the female rabbit in yield to the male rabbit is and will continue to make the male rabbits, pairing behavior looks like a crazy dance, this scene let early observers think the arrival of spring to make them mad.

　　家兔與野兔都屬兔科，它們是繁殖很快的育種。雌性可以在懷第一窩小兔的時候同時懷上第二窩小兔(兩窩小兔將分別出生)。這種現象被稱為異期復孕。兔類的性成熟很早，在一年內可產下幾窩小兔(因此有俗話說“像兔子一樣能生”);所以白兔和野兔成為豐饒多產的代表，他們在交配期間的行為也被引入了民間神話傳說。即使如此，能下蛋的兔子這一概念所出何處至今仍沒有辦法確定，可能只是來自于象征概念上的混淆，但也有可能就如復活節本身，是一種舊傳統的沿襲。

　　Rabbits and hares are rabbit, they multiply rapidly breeding. When the first female rabbit nest and nest with second rabbits (two litters were born rabbit). This is known as the same period after pregnancy. The rabbit mature early, within a year can produce a few nest rabbit (hence the saying "like a rabbit to rabbit and hare"); so they become fertile, during mating behavior has been introduced into the folk myths and legends. Even so, this concept can lay a rabbit where still no way to determine, may be from the symbol of confusion, but there may be just as Easter itself, followed an old tradition.

　　在日耳曼人以及斯拉夫人的語言中，“復活節”一詞來自于一個古代的異教女神，春季女神“ēostre”。根據那個傳說所述，ēostre曾經救了一只在冬季被凍傷翅膀的小鳥，將它變成了一只兔子。由于它曾經是一只鳥，它依舊保留了生蛋的能力。它便是后來的復活節兔子。

　　In Germanic and Slavic languages, "Easter" comes from an ancient pagan goddess, goddess of spring "ostre". According to the legend of the Ostre, once rescued a frostbite in winter the wings of birds, it will be turned into a rabbit. Because it was a bird, it still retains the eggs. It became the Easter Bunny.