A couple of rabbits were being chased by a pack of coyotes. They stopped in a haystack, and one rabbit said to the other, "We gonna make a run for it, or stay here and outnumber them?"

Cast as a rustic one-liner, the joke turns on a comic misuse of “outnumber”: the rabbits are hopelessly outmatched by coyotes, yet one proposes “staying” so they can multiply and thereby “outnumber” the predators. The humor comes from treating reproduction as an immediate tactical option, a deadpan, illogical “solution” to danger. As a Skelton-style gag, it also plays on folksy diction (“We gonna…”) and the contrast between urgent peril and casual, homespun reasoning. Read more broadly, it satirizes wishful thinking and procrastination—choosing an implausible long-term fix instead of decisive action when confronted with an immediate threat.