#0287 · 🦊 mammals

White-tailed Jackrabbit

🇳🇱 Witstaartlepelhaas ·Lepus townsendii

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The white-tailed jackrabbit ( Lepus townsendii ), also known as the prairie hare and the white jack , is a species of hare found in western North America. Like all hares and rabbits, it is a member of the family Leporidae of order Lagomorpha. It is a solitary individual except where several males court a female in the breeding season. Litters of four to five young are born in a form, a shallow depression in the ground, hidden among...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,009iNaturalist 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.
8,009 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by John Bachman in 1839 (187 years ago).