Scenes From My Walk - The Return Of The Bunny AKA Desert Cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii). I came upon the bunny early today. I reversed the route I took yesterday and I came to the rabbit’s location near the beginning of my walk. It seems that arriving just before sunrise greatly increases the odds of seeing the rabbit. “The desert cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii), also known as Audubon's cottontail, is a New World cottontail rabbit, and a member of the family Leporidae. Unlike the European rabbit, they do not form social burrow systems, but compared with some other leporids, they are extremely tolerant of other individuals in their vicinity. Cottontails give birth to their kits in burrows vacated by other mammals. They sometimes cool off, or take refuge in scratched out shallow created depressions of their own making, using their front paws like a back hoe.[3] They are not usually active in the middle of the day, but can be observed foraging in the early morning, and early evening. Cottontails are rarely found out of their burrows looking for food on windy days, because the wind interferes with their ability to hear approaching predators, their primary defense mechanism.” - Wikipedia #ScenesFromMyWalk #Bunny #DesertCottontail #SylvilagusAudubonii #Rabbit #BunnyRabbit #bunnyrabbitsofinstagram #bunnysofinstagram (at Agua Fria, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTAqyEXFdcV/?utm_medium=tumblr
