Wildlife of Henry W. Coe State Park
Beechey Ground Squirrel · Black-tailed Jackrabbit · Bobcat · Coyote · Mountain Lion · Mule Deer · Raccoon · Striped Skunk · Valley Pocket Gopher · Wild Pig
Black-tailed Jackrabbit
Lepus californicus
Alert jackrabbit, poised to run.
In the "Orestimba Sands," the broad part of the South Fork
Orestimba Creek just south of the Rooster Comb. This area is a large sandy and gravelly
flood plain, usually dry and inhabited by scattered low subshrubs and
perennials, such as Brickellia californica, and by rabbits (genus Sylvilagus)
and jackrabbits.
This one was about 4 meters away, and to avoid alarming it, I slowly
moved the camera to about chest height, pointed it in the general
direction, and snapped it. The image is a much-cropped portion of the
original transparency.
22 March 1993.
Photograph copyright Ó Lee Dittmann.
On the move.
Coe Headquarters campground, Pine Ridge.
13 August 1998.
Photograph copyright Ó Lee Dittmann.
Along Center Flats Road east of Center Flats,
through telephoto.
10 May 2005.
Photograph copyright Ó Lee Dittmann.
Jackrabbits, while in the same order of mammals as rabbits, the lagomorphs,
are not true rabbits, but are true hares. Some will think such
distinctions are "splitting hares," but any mammalogist will tell you that
breeding rabbits is not a "hare-raising experience," while breeding
jackrabbits is.
(Sorry.)
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Wildlife of Henry Coe State Park