White-tailed Jackrabbit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The White-tailed Jackrabbit ( Lepus townsendii ), also known as the Prairie Hare and the White Jack , is a hare found in western North America. Briefly reputed to have been extirpated , it is ...
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Description: The White-tailed jackrabbit’s summer pelt is brownish with some black and tends to appear grayish, it turns white in the winter. The ears are black-tipped, even when the species turns white in winter. The tail is white but occasionally has a dark streak dorsally. It is the largest rabbit in Idaho,
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The white-tailed jackrabbit is a large hare found throughout North Dakota. It is heavy-bodied and is about 2 feet in total length from the nose to the end of its hind feet. Average weight is about 7 pounds.
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www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/mammals/mammals/jack.htm
www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/mammals/mammals/jack.htm
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Birds and Mammals Observed by; Lewis & Clark in North Dakota ... A white-tailed jack rabbit, pictured here as it likely appeared to Lewis and Clark during their winter at Fort Mandan. Courtesy of NDG&F. ... jack rabbit (photo)
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www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/wildlife/bmam/jrabbit.htm
www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/wildlife/bmam/jrabbit.htm
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White-tailed jackrabbits are found throughout west-central Canada and the United States with an elevation span of 40 to 4,300 m. They range from the Great Plains of Saskatchewan and Alberta east to extreme southwest Ontario down into Wisconsin and across the continent to the Rocky Mountains with a southern limit in...
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animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Lepus_townsendii.html
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Unit 2 - Lewis and Clark ... Lewis and Clark first saw white-tailed jack rabbits in what is now Lyman County. The white-tailed jack rabbit is a large hare. It prefers open areas where its keen hearing, good eyesight, and great speed make it easy to escape.
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www.sd4history.com/Unit2/jack_rabbit.htm
www.sd4history.com/Unit2/jack_rabbit.htm
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The Snowshoe Rabbit and the White-tailed Jack may have more than one litter a year. There can be as many as 7 or 8 in a litter, although the average litter is from 2 to 4. The Black-tailed Jack is by far the most common and is found all over California except in the mountainous areas at elevations above 12,000 feet.
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Description: White-tailed jack rabbits are heavy-bodied hares weighing 3.0 kilograms or more. ... A sidewise lope differentiates this species from the black-tailed jack rabbit behaviorally. In evening this hare leaves its hiding place and begins foraging, moving leisurely and deliberately across open fields in short...
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www.ksr.ku.edu/libres/Mammals_of_Kansas/lepus-t-camp.ht...
www.ksr.ku.edu/libres/Mammals_of_Kansas/lepus-t-camp.html
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SIERRA WHITE-TAILED JACK RABBIT. Lepus townsendii sierrae Merriam ... The Sierra White-tailed Jack Rabbit is known to many persons as the "snowshoe rabbit'; occasionally it is called Sierra Hare. ... The main range of the White-tailed Jack Rabbit begins at Tuolumne Meadows and Vogelsang Lake, where evidence of the species,
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www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/grinnell/mammals72.htm
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