"Rabbits will always need tricks!"

"No, we need dignity... and above all, the will to accept our fate."

I really love this character. I'm not sure why because he's not in the movie or books for very long and he's an overall unlikeable character, evil, heartless, and cowardly, but I still like him for some reason.

He's the apparent leader of a den where the rabbits have traded in their freedom for an uncertain security; the man who owns a farm nearby chases away their predators and leaves out food for the rabbits, but he also snares the area to catch and eat the healthy, meaty rabbits. So while the rabbits know they will never go hungry and that they'll never be ambushed or killed be elil, any day they'll be snared and die.

Cowslip finds stray, wandering rabbits and invites them into the warren with the lure of safety and good food, hoping that the added numbers will increase his and the other inhabitants odds of living a little bit longer.

In the book he's described as large and rather handsome, but I took his ears from the movie because they were pretty identifiable.

I would have liked him to have more appearances even if it did just add to his unlikeableness. Like in the tv-series, General Woundwart threatens his warren or something, and Cowslip turns over his seer, Silverweed... in the book Silverweed was already completely insane from the hopelessness of his situation but he seemed alright in the series, and I was thinking.. if they had a seer (a rabbit clairvoyant, like Fiver) they could have totally bailed the Warren of Shining Wire and looked for their own Watership Down :/ But I dunno, maybe Cowslip was stubborn.

Art is mine

Character is Richard Adams'