Comments on: NAME THAT ANIMAL!

By: steve

steve — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:14:39 +0000

I’m not an expert but I’d have guessed either “Flopsie”,”Mopsie”, or “Cottontail. Guess I was wrong.

By: MatthewCobb

MatthewCobb — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:16:47 +0000

Hal 9000 gets it right, as usual. It is indeed a pygmy rabbit from North America. Researchers writing in the Journal of Applied Ecology have recently used a Bayesian model to try and work out their distribution and abundance:

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123239219/abstract

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:17:15 +0000

I agree with Hal. Brachylagus.

By: Dan Gilbert

Dan Gilbert — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:55:22 +0000

Bunneh.

By: ekolog

ekolog — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:53:59 +0000

I would go for some species of Pika.

By: Tom Ellis

Tom Ellis — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:20:28 +0000

My first thought was a pika, but I suspect the ears aren’t big enough.

A juvenile snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus)?

By: Hal 9000

Hal 9000 — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:18:06 +0000

Looks like a Pygmy Rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis)

By: Marcus

Marcus — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:11:34 +0000

Bunny.

By: NewEnglandBob

NewEnglandBob — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:25:55 +0000

How about “Myron”. He looks like a “Myron”.

Oh, you meant species. Some kind of Hare? family: Leporidae, genus: Lepus.