Most of the time, the rabbits forage near their assigned rocks. When the Explorer Robot gets close, they become alert, sprint toward cover, wait, and return only after the danger has moved farther away.
The behavior is easy to read from across the trail. It also creates comedy without writing a joke. A rabbit can follow the correct rule and still leave one ear, half a body, or its entire plan visible.
How a rabbit picks the far side
The rabbit looks at the line from the robot to its cover rock, then chooses a hiding point beyond the rock on that same line. Stable rocks matter because each one is both scenery and a dependable reference for the animal.
This is one reason the earlier pushable-rock experiment was removed. If the ground, collision, and rabbit disagree about where a boulder lives, the smallest creature inherits the biggest confusion.
How the rabbit behavior works
Rabbits choose valid rock cover and forage nearby. They enter alert behavior when the player is within ten units, dash to the far side of the assigned cover, hide, and emerge once the player moves beyond fourteen units.
The larger exit distance prevents the state from flickering when the player stands right on the boundary. Quality levels reduce the population while keeping a small group. Low quality retains four cover sites.
The cover calculation reads the current rock record. Tests can move that record to prove the function follows it, even though the game itself keeps rock transforms fixed.