Cottontail Rabbit
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
animal of the order Lagomorpha, which includes the hares and rabbits, except for the domestic, or European, rabbit, which is in a separate species.
Cottontail Rabbit Range
Fast Facts
Type: Mammal Diet: Herbivore Average life span in the wild: Less than 3 years Size: 15.5 to 18.75 in (39.5 to 47.7 cm) Weight: 28 to 54 oz (800 to 1533 g) Size relative to a tea cup: ...
COTTONTAIL RABBIT
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SCIENTIFIC NAME: Sylviagus floridanus ...
The eastern cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus floridanus) is found throughout the eastern two-thirds of the United States and south through Mexico. In this range, there are 12 subspecies with only one native to Indiana, Sylvilagus floridanus mearnsii.
The cottontail rabbit prefers a habitat of heavy brush, strips of forest, weed and briar patches, abandoned fields and fringe areas of cultivated fields.
Behavior: ...
(Cottontail rabbits)
Subgenus Tapeti: Swamp Rabbit (S. aquaticus) Â- Tapeti (S. brasiliensis) Â- Dice's Cottontail (S. dicei) Â- Omilteme Cottontail (S. insonus) Â- Marsh Rabbit (S. palustris) Â- Venezuelan Lowland Rabbit (S. varynaensis) ...
Some aspects of cottontail rabbit ecology in Lyon County, Kansas. Unpubl. Masters Thesis, Emporia State Univ. Baker, R. H. 1954. A hoary bat from northwestern Kansas. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 57:196. Baker, R. J., R. K. Barnett, and I. F.
Mortality and population density of cottontail rabbits at Ross Natural History Reservation, Lyon County, Kansas. Emporia State Research Studies. [Emporia, KS: Emporia State University]; 31(4): 1-49. [25132] 4. Beckwith, Stephen L. 1954.
They eat primarily small mammals, such as eastern cottontail rabbits, thirteen-lined ground squirrels, and white-footed mice. They occasionally eat birds, snakes, large insects and other large invertebrates.
Stomach analysis reveal that the Bobcat's diet consists 45% of cottontail rabbits and Snowshoe Hares; 28% mice and rats; 10% squirrels; 5% kangaroo rats and pocket mice; 2% pocket gophers; 1% porcupines; 2% shrews; 3% birds; ...
Cottontail rabbits seem to be a prominent food, but the owls will take squirrels, shrews, jackrabbits, muskrats, mice, weasels, skunks, pocket gophers, snakes, domestic cats, bats, beetles, scorpions, frogs, grasshoppers, and a wide variety of birds, ...
Cottontail: The cottontail rabbits are 16 lagomorph species in the genus Sylvilagus, found in the Americas. In appearance most cottontail rabbits closely resemble the wild European rabbit.
The Omiltemi rabbit is a large cottontail rabbit only known from a possible recent sighting and from specimens collected in the 1800's from forests in the Sierra Madre del Sur, of southern Mexico.
Brush Rabbits are small cottontail rabbits. The fur is brownish in appearance with individual hairs of gray, black and reddish brown. The ears are fairly small. The small tail is brown above and white underneath.
An Opportunistic Hunter: The bobcat mainly hunts cottontail rabbits and snowshoe hares, but isn't so finicky as to turn up its nose at squirrels, foxes, rodents, deer and carrion.
Other prey animals include: reptiles and amphibians, scorpions, young cottontail rabbits, bats, and birds, such as sparrows and horned larks. These Owls are quite versatile in the ways they capture prey.
Bobcats in the south typically hunt cottontail rabbits and populations in the north hunt snowshoe hares, but they adapt according to availability. Males will hunt larger animals, such as deer, when food is scarce.
What they eat: Coyotes are carnivorous (eat meat) -- they eat primarily small mammals, such as eastern cottontail rabbits, thirteen-lined ground squirrels, and white-footed mice.
Gray fox eat a variety of small mammals but have a preference for cottontail rabbits. Other foods are small birds and insects. Grey fox can climb most trees, and sometimes they catch prey there. New born fawns are also a favored prey item.
Natural Diet: Snowshoe hares, cottontail rabbits, mice, and other rodents, as well as white-tailed deer, foxes, birds, and other animals are among bobcats' prey.
Badgers primarily eat small mammals such as ground squirrels, pocket gophers, prairie dogs and cottontail rabbits, but they also will consume birds, invertebrates and carrion.
There are seven different genera in the family classified as rabbits, including the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), cottontail rabbit (genus Sylvilagus; 13 species), and the Amami rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi, ...
A large part of its diet is made up of small mammals like mice, voles and eastern cottontail rabbits. It also eats birds; insects; and plants like corn, apples, nuts, berries and grass.
Food
: Prairie dogs make up over 90% of a black-footed ferret's diet. It is believed that ferrets will occasionally eat ground squirrels, other small rodents, cottontail rabbits, and birds.
about in the desert landscaping of this hotel. Since the hotel irrigates its grounds, it is a resort destination not just for human visitors but for all sorts of local wildlife as well, including dozens and dozens of desert cottontail rabbits.
5 m into the air and knock feathers out of a low-flying dove. An analysis of stomach contents from 13 Venezuelan jaguarundis revealed the remains of lizards, rodents, small birds, cottontail rabbits, and grass.
Rabbits are born naked and blind; they are cared for in a nest. Hares are born furry and open-eyed; they are cared for in the open and can hop soon after birth. Examples: brown hare, jack rabbit (a hare), eastern cottontail rabbit.
 See also: Rabbit, Cottontail, Burro, Mice, Eastern Cottontail
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