#0205 · 🦊 mammals

Desert Cottontail

🇳🇱 Woestijnkatoenstaartkonijn ·Sylvilagus audubonii

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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what is it?

The desert cottontail ( Sylvilagus audubonii ), also known as Audubon's cottontail , is a New World cottontail rabbit, and a member of the family Leporidae. Unlike the European rabbit, they do not form social burrow systems, but compared with some other leporids, they are extremely tolerant of other individuals in their vicinity.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 57,423iNaturalist 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.
57,423 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Spencer Fullerton Baird in 1858 (168 years ago).