The eastern cottontail is a typical rabbit with long ears and hind legs. The tail is short, fluffy, 30-70 mm (1.2-2.8 in) in length, brown above and white below. Except for the rust colored nape, the ...

FAIRFIELD COUNTY – The Eastern Cottontail Solar Project will implement sheep grazing to assist with vegetation management at its project site in Fairfield County. Implementing sheep grazing has been ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The New England cottontail was once so common that Massachusetts author Thornton Burgess adapted one named Peter for the children’s stories he penned a ...

The species is very “elusive” because of its isolated populations in the mountains and its striking similarities to the Eastern cottontail rabbit, according to North Carolina wildlife officials. North ...