cottontail

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Tourani points to the eastern cottontail as an example.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2023

The same study found that marsh and cottontail rabbits and foxes had disappeared from the area.

From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2023

It is larger than several U.S. states, and home to 130,000 people and countless bobcats, beavers, muskrats and cottontail rabbits.

From Reuters • Aug. 12, 2022

It started in 1927, when a man named Charles D. White bought two dozen cottontail rabbits from a dealer in Kansas.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2022

Like cottontail rabbits and chaparral birds and a baby possum that sulked and lay like dead for the first several hours until he finally decided that Arliss wasn’t going to hurt him.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson