The Eastern cottontail is chunky, red-brown or gray-brown, with large hind feet, long ears and a short, fluffy white tail. Its underside fur is white.

The rabbits stayed together at the Maine Wildlife Park in Gray until grass and leaves provided enough cover in their new Scarborough habitat. Six rabbits were released in pairs on March 22; the ...

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Eastern cottontail rabbit populations have been increasing in central Ohio for the past 10 years. The summer of 2024 saw the ...

As it turned out, Mark didn't capture the skunk but instead he caught a cottontail rabbit, which was lured into the trap baited with peanut butter. When Mark told me he had caught a bunny, ...

Based on a survey, 31,213 hunters pursued rabbits in 2018-19 and harvested 123,363 cottontails. For comparison, hunters brought home about 1.3 million rabbits in 1984.

The Eastern cottontail nestling and its sibling were rescued from a fire after a family realized the babies were trapped in a fire ring. One of the babies died from complications caused by the ...

The Omiltemi cottontail rabbit was thought to have been lost to science since the early 1900s. Last seen 130 years ago, the future looked bleak for this little brown rabbit, but an expedition in ...

Despite continual pestering by my black Lab Bailey, a pair of cottontail rabbits have moved onto our property. I believe the bunnies live on the sage-covered bluff next to our small cherry orchard ...