He said the figure was a lagomorph, a classification that covers both rabbits and hares.
|
|
Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), who is perhaps best known for vaping during a congressional hearing, had listed $600 in campaign expenditures "for in-cabin rabbit transport fees"—presumably, a personal seat for his domestic lagomorph.
|
|
There is the whimsically asymmetrical glassware by Jill Reynolds and Daniel Spitzer of Malfatti Glass, and "The Mysterious Lagomorph," a fantastical chandelier by Kathy Ruttenberg in which lit-up white resin rabbits frolic around the trunk of a ceramic tree.
|
|
These are immediately eaten by the lagomorph, which can thus extract all the remaining nutrients in the food.
|
|
Mimotona is a genus of early insectivorous lagomorph that lived in late Paleocene of China. Four species are described.
|
|
Prolagus oeningensis is an extinct lagomorph and the type species of its genus, Prolagus. It lived from 15.97 to 7.75 Ma, existing for about 8 million years.
|
|
The East African springhare (Pedetes surdaster), is not closely related to the hare, which is a lagomorph, but is a member of the Pedetidae, a rodent family.
|
|
Three species of lagomorph have been described in the 21st century: the black pika, Ochotona nigritia, the Venezuelan lowland rabbit, Sylvilagus varynaensis, and the Annamite striped rabbit, Nesolagus timminsi.
|
|
Systematic Biology. 54 (3): 391–400. doi:10.1080/10635150590945278. . and lagomorphsRose K.D., Deleon V.B., Mmissian P., Rana R.S., Sahni A., Singh L. & Smith T. (2008). – Early Eocene lagomorph (Mammalia) from western India and the early diversification of Lagomorpha.
|
|
"Predicting the Impacts of Future Sea-Level Rise on an Endangered Lagomorph." Environmental Management 40.3 (2007): 430-437. They recommend urgent management of predatory stray cats, and restoration of marshes as possible solutions to reduce the extinction rate of S. p. hefneri.
|
|
Palaeolagus ('ancient hare') is an extinct genus of lagomorph. Palaeolagus lived in the Oligocene period which was about 33-23 million years ago. The earliest leporids described from the fossil record of North America and Asia date to the upper Eocene some 40 million years ago.
|
|
The Afghan pika is a lagomorph, a small mammal related to rabbits and hares, and has a small head with rounded ears, short, densely furred legs and furred soles to the feet. The fur is reddish-brown with a cream-coloured collar round the neck and paler underparts.
|
|
Nidificacion de cárabo común Strix aluco en nido abandonado de aguila perdicera Hieraaetus fasciatus. Butlleti del Grup Catala d'Anellament, 15: 43-45. European rabbits have a huge range of predators in the Iberian peninsula, with at least 30 different species known to hunt the once densely-populated lagomorph.
|
|
Flood, Alison. "Strong showing for Irish writers on Frank O'Connor shortlist". The Guardian, 9 July 2011 It won the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award in the 2011 Atlantic Book Awards. In 2019, he won an O. Henry Award for his short story, "Lagomorph", which was first published in Granta.
|
|
Recent finds suggest an Indian origin for the clade, having possibly evolved in isolation when India was an island continent in the Paleocene.Rose K.D., Deleon V.B., Mmissian P., Rana R.S., Sahni A., Singh L. & Smith T. (2008). – Early Eocene lagomorph (Mammalia) from western India and the early diversification of Lagomorpha. – Proc.
|
|
Nuralagus unique traits were most likely the product of an insular environment containing no natural predators. Physical similarities between Nuralagus rex and Pentalagus furnessi (an extant insular lagomorph which until recently also did not have natural predators) despite the phylogenetic and geographical distance between the two species further supports this inference.
|
|
The oldest known fossils attributed to the modern European rabbit species are around 0.5 Ma old (Middle Pleistocene).Lopez-Martinez, Nieves (2008), The Lagomorph Fossil Record and the Origin of the European Rabbit, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008, Print The cladogram is from Matthee et al., 2004, based on nuclear and mitochondrial gene analysis.
|
|
One mammal endemic to the region is the endangered Koslov's pika (Ochotona koslowi). The Koslov's pika ia a burrowing lagomorph that lives in dense family communities. The species had been identified in 1884 on the basis of two specimens, then 'lost' for over 100 years until scientists discovered some isolated communities in the Kunlun Mountains.
|
|
Black bear and white-tailed deer are the larger mammal species, with rodent and lagomorph species, such as snowshoe hare, lower on the food chain. Beavers have been common over the years, with Kudish finding more evidence of present and past dams and meadows on the slopes of Balsam Lake and its neighboring peaks.
|
|
Genuine fossils of earliest rabbits are from the Eocene Epoch, about 56 million years to 33.9 million years ago. Members of the genus Gomphos are established to be the phylogenetic root of lagomorph rabbits and hares. To date, the oldest Gomphos is G. elkema discovered in 2008 from Gujarat, India. The fossil is dated to 53 million years old.
|
|
The southern viscacha (Lagidium viscacia) is a species of viscacha, a rodent in the family Chinchillidae found in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. It is a colonial animal living in small groups in rocky mountain areas. It has long ears and hind legs and resembles a rabbit in appearance apart from its long, bushy tail, but is not a lagomorph.
|
|
Nuralagus, occasionally called the Minorcan giant lagomorph, is an extinct genus of leporid. The genus contains the single species N. rex, described in 2011. It lived in the island of Menorca from the Messinian until around the middle of the Pliocene (). It went extinct when Majorca and Menorca were united as one island, letting the goat-like ungulate Myotragus balearicus colonize Nuralagus habitat.
|
|
The primary food of pygmy rabbits is big sagebrush, which may comprise up to 99% of the food eaten in the winter. Grasses and forbs are also eaten from mid- to late summer.Gates, Robert J.; Eng, Robert L. (1984) Sage grouse, pronghorn, and lagomorph use of a sagebrush-grassland burn site on the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory. In: Markham, O. Doyle, ed.
|
|
It is endemic to the 170 km2 San José Island in the Gulf of California, a desert habitat island in the state of Baja California Sur in Mexico. The island is only separated from the mainland by a 5–8 km channel. The rabbit only occurs on roughly 20 km2 with a population density estimated at 25-35 individuals per km2. This is the smallest known distribution of all lagomorph species.
|
|
The collared pika (Ochotona collaris) is a species of mammal in the pika family, Ochotonidae, and part of the order Lagomorpha, which comprises rabbits, hares, and pikas. It is a small (about 160 g) alpine lagomorph that lives in boulder fields of central and southern Alaska (U.S.), and in parts of Canada, including northern British Columbia, Yukon, and western parts of the Northwest Territories. It is closely related to the American pika (O.
|
|
Tavolara from the Sardinian shore A rare species of thorny knapweed, Centaurea horrida, is endemic only to Tavolara and a few other fringe areas of northern Sardinia. In his Natural History of Sardinia (1774), Francesco Cetti reported huge rats inhabiting Tavolara, but these were likely Sardinian pikas, an endemic species of lagomorph that had already been driven to extinction in Sardinia proper by then.Kurtén, Björn (1968) Pleistocene Mammals of Europe. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London.
|
|
On 4 September 1893, Beatrix Potter addressed a story and picture letter to Noel Moore, the five-year-old son of her former governess Annie Carter Moore. The letter told of a humanised lagomorph called Peter Rabbit and his adventure in Mr. McGregor's garden. In the following years, Potter continued to send story and picture letters to Noel and his siblings. Mrs. Moore recognised their literary and artistic value and urged the author to publish them.
|
|
The IUCN/SSC Lagomorph Specialist Group has created an action plan for this rabbit that focuses upon the need to manage the burning and overgrazing of its Zacatón habitats and to enforce laws prohibiting its hunting, capture, and sale. Studies about the volcano rabbit's geographical range, role in its habitat, population dynamics, and evolutionary history have been recommended. In addition, habitat restoration and the establishment of Zacatón corridors to link core areas of habitat are needed.
|
|
Although lyme disease can debilitate individual wolves, it does not appear to significantly affect wolf populations. Leptospirosis can be contracted through contact with infected prey or urine, and can cause fever, anorexia, vomiting, anemia, hematuria, icterus, and death. Wolves living near farms are more vulnerable to the disease than those living in the wilderness, probably because of prolonged contact with infected domestic animal waste. Wolves may catch tularemia from lagomorph prey, though its effect on wolves is unknown.
|
|
The only other family in the lagomorph order, the pikas, have been found to factor regularly into the diet of Eurasian eagle-owls as well, mainly in the mountainous regions of Asia. Pikas are much smaller than rabbits and hares, averaging amongst the know prey species. One study in Mongolia found that Daurian pikas (Ochotona dauurica) made up 73% by number of the remains.Smith, A. T., Formozov, N. A., Hoffmann, R. S., Chapman, J. A., & Flux, J. E. (Eds.). (1990).
|
|
Distemper causes the deaths of many pups in the wild, though some specimens can survive infection. Tularemia, a bacterial disease, infects coyotes from tick bites and through their rodent and lagomorph prey, and can be deadly for pups. Coyotes can be infected by both demodectic and sarcoptic mange, the latter being the most common. Mite infestations are rare and incidental in coyotes, while tick infestations are more common, with seasonal peaks depending on locality (May–August in the Northwest, March–November in Arkansas).
|
|
The leporids first appeared in the late Eocene and rapidly spread throughout the Northern Hemisphere; they show a trend towards increasingly long hind limbs as the modern leaping gait developed. The pikas appeared somewhat later in the Oligocene of eastern Asia. Lagomorphs were certainly more diverse in the past than in the present, with around 75 genera and over 230 species represented in the fossil record and many more species in a single biome. This is evidence that lagomorph lineages are declining.
|
|
A North American cottontail, Waterloo, Ontario Cottontail rabbits are among the 20 lagomorph species in the genus Sylvilagus, found in the Americas. Most Sylvilagus species have stub tails with white undersides that show when they retreat, giving them their characteristic name. However, this feature is not present in all cottontails nor is it unique to the genus. The genus is widely distributed across North America, Central America and northern and central South America, though most species are confined to particular regions.
|
|
Fossil occurrences of leporids and ochotonids and global environmental change (climate change, C3/C4 plants distribution). The lagomorphs are the members of the taxonomic order Lagomorpha, of which there are two living families: the Leporidae (hares and rabbits) and the Ochotonidae (pikas). The name of the order is derived from the Ancient Greek lagos (λαγώς, "hare") + morphē (μορφή, "form"). There are ninety-one extant species of lagomorph, including thirty species of pika, twenty-nine species of rabbit and cottontail, and thirty-two species of hare.
|
|
Controlling the populations of mongooses, feral dogs, and feral cats is another approach that could help bolster the rabbit population. Eradication of the mongooses and feral cats and dogs is needed, as well as better control of pets by local island residents. The Lagomorph Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources proposed a plan of conservation in 1990. In Amami-Oshima Island, the Amami Wildlife Conservation Center of the Ministry of the Environment was established in 1999.
|
|
In Parvoviridae, species are now generally defined as a cluster of viruses that encode replication initiator proteins (called NS1) that have amino acid sequences that are at least 85% identical to those encoded by all other members of the species. There are currently 25 recognized species of Bocaparvovirus. They are Carnivore bocaparvovirus 1–6, Chiropteran bocaparvovirus 1-4, Pinniped bocaparvovirus 1 and 2, Lagomorph bocaparvovirus 1, Primate bocaparvovirus 1 and 2, Rodent bocaparvovirus 1 and 2, and Ungulate bocaparvovirus 1–8. The human bocaviruses belong to the two primate species.
|
|
The largest animal in the taiga is the wood bison, found in northern Canada, Alaska and has been newly introduced into the Russian far-east. Small mammals of the Taiga biome include rodent species including beaver, squirrel, North American porcupine and vole, as well as a small number of lagomorph species such as snowshoe hare and mountain hare. These species have adapted to survive the harsh winters in their native ranges. Some larger mammals, such as bears, eat heartily during the summer in order to gain weight, and then go into hibernation during the winter.
|
|
Psycho Bunny is a men’s clothing company based in New York, founded in 2005 by Robert Godley and Robert Goldman. Founders Godley and Goldman have each spent decades working within the luxury menswear industry, with Godley gaining expertise through working with numerous high-end European designers, and Goldman, who grew up in the family business of luxury neckties. Handmade from English silk, their first collection of neckties introduced the signature long-eared, crossbone-clad lagomorph icon to the world. Inspired by the 17th- century non-conformist maritime marauders and secret societies like the infamous Skull & Bones, Godley sketched a logo on a napkin.
|
|
Among the raptors that mainly favor small mammals, harriers generally hunt by hovering over openings until they detect their prey and descend upon them. Due to the specificity of their hunting style, prey preferences, and habitat preferences, usually only one harrier species tends to be found per region. Buteonine hawks usually watch for prey from a perch but most species will also readily hunt on the wing, including from a high soar. Many buteonines are amongst the most generalized feeders, often feeding on any active small animal they find, and will generally eat whatever diurnal rodent or lagomorph is most locally common.
|
|
Stoat surplus killing a family of chipmunks, as illustrated by Ernest Thompson Seton As with the least weasel, mouse-like rodents predominate in the stoat's diet. However, unlike the least weasel, which almost exclusively feeds on small voles, the stoat regularly preys on larger rodent and lagomorph species, and will take down individuals far larger than itself. In Russia, its prey includes rodents and lagomorphs such as European water voles, common hamsters, pikas, and others, which it overpowers in their burrows. Prey species of secondary importance include small birds, fish, and shrews and, more rarely, amphibians, lizards, and insects.
|
|
Gomphos is an extinct genus of early lagomorph from the early Eocene of the China and Mongolia. Gomphos was first named in 1975 from material found in the Gashato Formation. There are currently two species in this genus: G. elkema, from the Greek word γόμφος (Romanized gomphos), which means "peg", but can also be used to signify molar teeth; and G. shevyrevae was named later in honour of the lead author who named the first original genus and species of Gomphos elkema. Analysis supports Gomphos as one of the earliest lagomorphs, the group that includes rabbits, hares and pikas.
|
|
Despite the great diversity of prey taken by these predators, in most of the Continental United States from the East to the Midwest as well as Canada and Alaska, great horned owls largely live off just a handful of prey species: three species of lagomorph: the eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus), the snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) and the black- tailed jackrabbit (Lepus californicus); two species of New World mice: the white-footed mouse and the North American deermouse (Peromyscus leucopus & maniculatus), approximately three species of vole: the meadow, prairie and woodland voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus, ochrogaster & pinetorum) and one introduced pest, the brown rat.
|
|
Furthermore, Alilepus remains in areas other than Spain have been determined to be much older than Spanish specimens, implying that the genus arrived in Spain after its inception. This opposes the idea that an ancestor of Alilepus living in Spain was also the ancestor of Nuralagus. On the other hand, Trischizolagus, an extinct genus of lagomorph thought to be a possible ancestor of the European rabbit, is known to have lived in Iberia between 3 and 6 million years ago, coinciding with the Messinian Crisis. Therefore, it is possible that Trischizolagus is the ancestor of Nuralagus.
|
|
Male desert cottontail at 8 weeks, and the same specimen at 16 months of age Submissive posture anticipating food The lifespan of a cottontail that reaches adulthood averages less than two years, depending on the location. Unfortunately for the cottontail, almost every local carnivore larger or faster than the lagomorph is its predator. Some predators, like snakes for example, are familiar with the area inhabited by the cottontails, and can catch and eat the young at will; the mother is unable to defend the litter. Although cottontails are highly active sexually, and mated pairs have multiple litters throughout the year, few young survive to adulthood.
|
|
Abundant fossil and subfossil remains of P. sardus from several localities in Corsica and Sardinia hint at the once broad geographical range of this Prolagus species: it lived from sea level up to at least 800 m (2,624 ft.) in a variety of habitats (grasslands, shrublands) whereby it could dig burrows. Its diet was strictly vegetarian. Fossilized mass accumulations of broken bones (bone beds) suggest that it was a major source of food for many predators in the Pleistocene, like birds of prey or the Sardinian dhole, which was specialized in the hunt for this lagomorph. The presence of Prolagus also facilitated the establishment of the first human communities of the islands.
|
|