Photo: Tom Koerner/USFWS
Date 10 March 2016, 10:16
Source White-Tailed Jackrabbit on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge
Author USFWS Mountain-Prairie
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White-Tailed_Jackrabbit_on_Seedskadee_National_Wildlife_Refuge_(25795217461).jpg

The white-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii), 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: Lepus townsendii townsendii occurring west of the Rocky Mountains and Lepus townsendii campanius occurring east of the Rocky Mountains.
Order: Lagomorpha
Family: Leporidae
Genus: Lepus
Species: Lepus townsendii Bachman, 1839