I assume it has nothing to do with "Coney Island!"
Leviticus 11:5
KJV - 5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
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I have to interject that rabbits do not chew their cud, so therefore it can not be a rabbit.