Species: Sylvilagus nuttallii
Mountain Cottontail
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Mammalia
Order
Lagomorpha
Family
Leporidae
Genus
Sylvilagus
NatureServe
Classification
Other Global Common Names
Nuttall's Cottontail - lapin de Nuttall
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Mammals - Other Mammals
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae - Sylvilagus
Ecology and Life History
Migration
true - false - false
Non-migrant
true
Locally Migrant
false
Food Comments
Grasses and other herbaceous and woody vegetation, including sagebrush and juniper. Usually feeds in or near cover.
Reproduction Comments
Breeds late winter spring and summer. Gestation period lasts 28-30 days (Chapman 1975). Females may produce 4-5 litters of 4-5 young per year (Jones et al. 1983).
Ecology Comments
Predators include bobcats, coyotes, great horned and long-eared owls. Gopher snake and western rattlesnake are important predators on juveniles in some areas (Diller and Johnson 1988). Population density ranged from 19 to 254 per 100 ha in Oregon (Verts et al. 1984); density in sagebrush 23-43 per 100 ha in southern British Columbia.
Length
39
Weight
1032
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-11-05
Global Status Last Changed
1996-11-05
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
Western North America, from eastern slopes of Cascade-Sierra Nevada Range east to western North Dakota and Black Hills, and from southern Canada south to Arizona and New Mexico. Recently appears to have been replaced by S. FLORIDANUS in much, if not all, of southwstern North Dakota (Chapman 1975)