High Plains Drifter
... drifting...
lol I was a 4H kid too...showed polish chickens, couple of rabbits, and a fuckin goat named Vanessa. Also did whatever kids do with vegetables... grew em? Idk. Loved that shit though and always dug pretty much all animals... cute and furry ones even more so. That time at Lake Erie was the only occasion that I saw them in full on 'night of the lepus' form although we had plenty of wild rabbits around our property.. just not hoards of em. Surprised that they grow in numbers up in AK like what you witnessed with ( I would guess) tons of predators around and I can def see how that woulda been a bit surreal lol. I've never heard of them performing seances or anything but who knows? Maybe it's their version of a meet-n-greet or mixer... little small talk before heading to fuck town. Snowball regularly fucked my dad's lazy boy ( chair, not me).It's about six hours between my town and the next big town in Alaska. As you might imagine, this is a drive I've made a number of times at this point.
One time though, just before dawn, I was driving down the road with my wife at the time, we were about an hour outside of Fairbanks. And we saw thousands upon thousands of rabbits, technically hairs I guess, hanging out in the ditches eating clover and whatever else. It was adorable and also uncanny.
I have been told by multiple individuals that rabbits will sometimes congregate in circles that "look like" they are having a meeting or talking to each other. I have never seen this, but I have had independent sources make the same claim.
I was also a rabbit kid, on account of 4H. I feel a strong kinship for and mystical/vaguely terrified respect for whatever social organization and communication they have going on.