Trickster rabbits similarities and differences.

In the stories we have read the rabbits as a trickster is a common theme. In most stories they are very similar, These rabbits always have similar goals in mind, they want something (food, power, safety) and they exploit others to get it. In Rabbit and the Tug of War rabbit tricks to buffalo into facing each other in a tug of war thinking that they are both facing rabbit. After the buffaloes figure out that they have been tricked they banish rabbit from the watering hole. After rabbit is banished he uses a deer's hooves to trick the poorly sighted buffalo into thinking he is a deer so he can get water from the watering hole. Similarly in one Diasporic African tale brer rabbit tricks a cow into ramming a persimmons tree. She gets her horns stuck and brer rabbit and his family milk her, which she is against. The types of stories really don't differ all that much, the characters all have the same motivation, be it food, or safety, or power and each story teaches the reader a lesson most of the time.