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Originally Posted by M_Six
The thing I remember most about Wink was the utter isolation and the huge jackrabbits you'd see tearing across the fields. Those things are fast.
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Yes indeed. I've seen plenty of adult jackrabbits in the desert, but it's been years since I actually managed to get a picture of one. They hear you from a mile away and just go jackrabbitting off. The one I snapped was a juvenile, chilly and hunkering down just before dawn.
The surprising thing about jackrabbits is that they're BIG. From those monster ears to those cartoon clown shoe rear feet a full grown adult must span almost 3 feet in mid leap. No wonder they call 'em jackalopes.
On the other end of the lepus spectrum we have piles of Cottontail rabbits right around my home (in what is tellingly known as the Conejo Valley). Any evening you'll find 1 or 2 of them in every yard. Keeps the local coyote population fat and happy.