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Desert Cottontail Rabbit Desert Cottontail Rabbit. Scientific Name: Sylvilagus audubonii. Classification: Small game mammal. Size: Adults may attain the following dimensions: total length 359-435 mm; tail 39-61 mm; hind foot, 82-101 mm; ear 59-69 mm; weight 900-1375 grams.he adult desert cottontail is light colored, tan to gray, with a yellowish tinge. The underside of the body is whitish. It often has an orange-brown throat patch. The tail is rounded and looks like a cottonball, but is darker above, white below.
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- Report Broken Video. Filmed in the Mojave Desert near Inyokern, CA. This just goes to prove that wild rabbits are just as cute as pet rabbits! I was walking around the desert near Inyokern, California one morning and was fortunate enough to film this rabbit. This is what we believe to be a desert cottontail on a clear sunny morning in March.
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Desert Animal Survival Many animals (especially mammals and reptiles) are crepuscular, that is, they are active only at dusk and again at dawn. For this reason, humans seldom encounter rattlesnakes and Gila Monsters. Many animals are completely nocturnal, restricting all their activities to the cooler temperatures of the night.
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Eastern Cottontail - Sylvilagus floridanus Eastern Cottontail - Sylvilagus floridanus. Characteristics. The eastern cottontail has speckled brown-gray fur above, reddish-brown fur around its neck and shoulders and lighter fur around its nose and on its undersides. It has big eyes and a tail that is puffy white on the underside. In the winter its fur may be more gray than brown.
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Common brushtail possum The common brushtail possum (Trichosurus vulpecula, from the Greek for furry tailed and the Latin for little fox, previously in the genus Phalangista) is a nocturnal, semi-arboreal marsupial of the family Phalangeridae, it is native to Australia, and the second largest of the possums.
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Cats Many years ago Clyde, a female bobcat, was confiscated from its human owners by the Arizona Game & Fish Department and brought to the Desert Museum. She was the first bobcat to be housed in the newly completed Small Cat Habitat. But not for long.he bobcat is both more common and more widely distributed in the Sonoran Desert than the mountain lion. It hunts smaller prey and can more easily adapt to marginal habitats. This small cat is solitary, avoiding other bobcats, and it is also careful to avoid mountain lions, which will kill it, given the chance.
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- The Desert Locust is one of about a dozen species of short-horned grasshoppers (Acridoidea) that are known to change their behavior and form swarms of adults or bands of hoppers (wingless nymphs). The swarms that form can be dense and highly mobile. The Latin name for Desert Locust is Schistocerca gregaria (Forskal).
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- These include: 1  Desert Pincushion (Coryphentha vivipara) 2  Cottontop Cactus (Echinocactus polycephalus) 3  Torch Cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii var. chrysocentrus) 4  Engelmann Cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii var engelmannii) 5  Mojave Mound Cactus (Echinocereus triglochidiatus var mojavensis) 6  Barrel Cactus (Ferocactus acanthodes var lecontei)
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- The Desert Wildlife Page. This page features some of the animals, reptiles and invertebrates found in the arid regions of the South-West USA where cacti and other succulent plants grow. You can download larger images by clicking on the pictures below. emerges from its burrow under a clump of cactus in the Desert Botanic Garden, Phoenix, Arizona.
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Cactus Cat The Cactus cat is a mythical creature and Fearsome Critter that has been reported in the American Southwest. It's described as a bobcat-like animal with thorn-like fur, sharp bones protruding from its front legs and a branched tail. The Cactus Cat has been sighted in the Southwestern. A photoshop picture.
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Eastern Cottontail Rabbit About the Eastern Cottontail Rabbit. There are several species of cottontail rabbit, but the eastern cottontail is the most common. This ubiquitous animal can be found from Canada to South America and, in the United States, from the East Coast to the Great Plains.
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Eastern Cottontail Rabbit: In winter, waste corn, winter wheat, bud sprouts, bark and twigs are eaten. The Eastern Cottontail is primarily found east of the Rocky Mountain Range, north from southern Canada and south through Central America.
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- The food habits of cottontails and brush rabbits vary with the location and time of year. Cottontails feed seasonally on grasses, sedges, herbaceous plants, willows, oaks, blackberries, and wild roses. Brush rabbits prefer clover and also feed on the stems and berries of woody plants such as blackberries.
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Desert grassland whiptail lizard The desert grassland whiptail lizard is an all-female species of reptiles. It was formerly placed in the genus Cnemidophorus. A. uniparens have limited social stimuli, having only two basic needs: finding food and avoiding predators. A common predator of the whiptail lizard is the leopard lizard, that prey on A. uniparens by using ambush and stalk haunting tactics. These reptiles reproduce by parthenogenesis. In this process, eggs undergo a chromosome doubling after meiosis, developing into liza
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COTTONTAIL RABBITS Cottontails can raise as many as 6 litters in a year. Typically, there are 2 to 3 litters per year in northern parts of the cottontail range and up to 5 to 6 in southern areas. In the north (Wisconsin), first litters are born as early as late March or April. In the south (Texas), litters may be born year-round. Litter size also varies with latitude; rabbits produce 5 to 6 young per litter in the north, 2 to 3 in the south. The rabbit's gestation period is only 28 or 29 days, and a female is usually bred again within a few hours of giving birth. Rabbits give birth in a shallow nest depression in the ground.
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Eastern Cottontail Rabbit Size relative to a tea cup: There are several species of cottontail rabbit, but the eastern cottontail is the most common. This ubiquitous animal can be found from Canada to South America and, in the United States, from the East Coast to the Great Plains.ize relative to a tea cup: There are several species of cottontail rabbit, but the eastern cottontail is the most common. This ubiquitous animal can be found from Canada to South America and, in the United States, from the East Coast to the Great Plains.
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An Emu is the only bird that gives birth to it's chicks instead of hatching them from eggs? All rabbits (except the cottontail rabbits) live underground in burrows or warrens, while hares (and cottontail rabbits) live in simple nests above the ground, and usually do not live in groups. Hares are generally larger than rabbits, with longer ears, and have black markings on their fur.
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- Mating can occur at any time during the warmer months of the year. Cavorting typically occurs at night. Life Span and Reproduction The average life span of an eastern cottontail in the wild is usually less than three years. In captivity, though, a cottontail rabbit can live up to eight years.
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- Desert Pincushion (Coryphentha vivipara) 1  Cottontop Cactus (Echinocactus polycephalus) 2  Torch Cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii var. chrysocentrus) 3  Engelmann Cactus (Echinocereus engelmannii var engelmannii) 4  Mojave Mound Cactus (Echinocereus triglochidiatus var mojavensis) 5  Barrel Cactus (Ferocactus acanthodes var lecontei)
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- The desert biome. There are relatively few large mammals in deserts because most are not capable of storing sufficient water and withstanding the heat. Deserts often provide little shelter from the sun for large animals. The dominant animals of warm deserts are nonmammalian vertebrates, such as reptiles. Mammals are usually small, like the kangaroo mice of North American deserts. Desert biomes can be classified according to several characteristics. There are four major types of deserts: Hot and dry
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- White or cottontail rabbits are the most commonly hunted rabbits, and there are several varieties of regional cottontails that vary slightly in appearance. Desert cottontails, for example, have extremely large ears, while swamp rabbits have smaller, sharp faces that resemble rodents more so than rabbits.
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What Do Cottontail Rabbits Eat? Quick Answer. Cottontail rabbits are herbivorous animals that will eat nearly any plant or vegetable that they can get. They do not prefer any type of plant compared to others; but they will tend to eat more of certain things, such as grass or bark, depending on the season that it is. Continue Reading.
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- , the occasional chinkara or the Indian gazelle, desert fox, Eurasian eagle owl, and the Khejri or Loong tree of arid climates, a stock that can withstand harsh conditions with its roots reaching deep into the soil.
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Rabbit Anatomy - Rabbit Body Systems The blood vessels. The blood pumped out of the heart is carried around the body in a 75000 mile long transport network of blood vessels. There are three main types of blood vessels-the arteries, the veins and the capillaries.he blood pumped out of the heart is carried around the body in a 75000 mile long transport network of blood vessels. There are three main types of blood vessels-the arteries, the veins and the capillaries.
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Cottontop Tamarin The cottontop tamarin is a diurnal primate which means that the cottontop tamarin is most active during the day and rests in the safety of the tree tops during the night. cottontop tamarins are very sociable animals and inhabit their territory with their rest
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Desert cottontail The desert cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii), also known as Audubon's cottontail, is a New World cottontail rabbit, and a member of the family Leporidae. The desert cottontail is found throughout the western United States from eastern Montana to western Texas, and in northern and central Mexico.he desert cottontail uses burrows made by rodents rather than making its own. Like all cottontail rabbits, the desert cottontail has a rounded tail with white fur on the underside which is visible as it runs away. It is a light grayish-brown in color, with almost white fur on the belly.