#0223 · 🦊 mammals

Black-tailed Jackrabbit

🇳🇱 Zwartstaartlepelhaas ·Lepus californicus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Susan E Adams · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Erica Fleniken · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Carlos Luna · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © noahgaines · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Marianne Skov Jensen · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Zoe Stephens · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Dan Dzurisin · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. © Rich Kostecke · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Scott Bowers · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Ross Millikan · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The black-tailed jackrabbit ( Lepus californicus ), also known as the American desert hare , is a common hare of the western United States and Mexico, where it is found at elevations from sea level up to 10,000 ft (3,000 m). 7 kg), the black-tailed jackrabbit is the third-largest North American hare. Black-tailed jackrabbits occupy mixed shrub-grassland terrains. Their breeding depends on the location; it typically peaks...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 25,800iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
25,800 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by John Edward Gray in 1837 (189 years ago).