^*Rabbits can count up to four. Any number above four is Hrair – ‘a lot’, or ‘a thousand’. Thus they say U Hrair – ‘The Thousand’ – to mean, collectively, all the enemies (or elil, as they call them) of rabbits – fox, stoat, weasel, cat, owl, man, etc. There were probably more than five rabbits in the litter when Fiver was born, but his name, Hrairoo, means ‘Little thousand’, i.e. the little one of a lot or, as they say of pigs, ‘the runt’.