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White-tailed Jack Rabbit
I was scanning for a bird of prey that I'd sighted a few seconds before when I noticed this rabbit bounding rapidly directly at me and my husband. When it spotted us, it stopped and stood up for a closer look. As I was taking this shot my husband suddenly exclaimed coyote! Sure enough out from the sage trotted a coyote. This fellow had been running from him. The rabbit decided we were certainly the lesser of two evils and took off past us. The coyote wanted absolutely nothing do to with humans and turned around faster than I could even raise my camera again.
The white-tailed jackrabbit , 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 vegetation. This jackrabbit has two described subspecies: ''L. townsendii townsendii''.. more
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And wow, this has been promoted 3 times so far :P Posted 6 years ago