Minnesota is home to the prolific cottontail rabbit, as well as two species of their relatives — the white-tailed jack rabbit ...

Claim to fame: Rabbit hunting is not as popular now as it was in the mid-1900s, but the cottontail is still a prominent game animal in much of Missouri. Missouri’s rabbit season runs from Oct. 1 ...

Minnesota is home to two varieties of the small mammal we simply refer to as rabbits. In Duluth we are in the midst of the overlapping ranges of those two animals. Their appearance is similar enough ...

Visitors to the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy’s 1,600 acres of sprawling fields have been spotting furry friends recently. The Audubon cottontail rabbit, a native species to the conservancy, ...

Eastern cottontail rabbits begin birthing their first litters of the year this week. This medium-sized mammal with long ears, large hind legs, shorter front legs, a short fluffy tail and soft fur ...

In the Iowa City area, cottontail rabbits are one of the most visible animals of the state's small game population. And the favorite of many. People new to the fluctuations of the local cottontail ...

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In the summer of 2020, I fell in love with a rabbit that refused to love me back. It was July, the height of the second wave of the pandemic, and I found myself living in my childhood home with my ...

“You may go into the fields or down the lane, but don’t go into Mr. McGregor’s garden. Your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.” From "The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” by ...

The grass is not that green for the New England cottontail rabbit anymore, as its habitat is disappearing — and if there is no intervention the Massachusetts famous rabbit could become extinct, ...