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• It’s very small and weighs up to one pound.• The rabbit’s life span is 3-7 years and is up to

one foot in length.• The family members are called Leporidae.• During the photoperiod about six young are

born.

• They live in California, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, and Washington in the United States on North America.

• They appear in areas with tall, dense sagebrush.

Pygmy Rabbit

• Its daily diet is sagebrush or any other grasses.

• It is attacked by weasels, coyotes, badgers, bobcats, raptors, owls, ravens, crows, and foxes.

• Their small size, alarm calls, and digging of burrows helps them survive.

• Threatening things like wildfires, gas, oil, conversion of sagebrush with rangeland to agriculture all affect pygmy rabbits lives.

• The pygmy rabbit population is about 96.