Cottontail   By: J.G.D

Animalia/Chordata/Mammalia/Lagomapha/Leporidae/Sylvilagus Graysoni/Poem/Fun Facts/References

Kingdom: Animalia

• animal
• multicellular
• heterotrophs
• ingest food and digest it

Phylum: Chordata

• vertebral column
• symmetrical
• endoskeleton is present

Class: Mammalia

• three middle ear bones
• hair
• produce milk from mammary glands

Order: Lagomapha

• small, medium-sized animals
• pair of incisors
• large cheeks
• marsupial

Family: Leporidae

• medium-sized body, about 300 grams to 7 grams
• have seasonal molt from brown to white
• short tail
• good leapers and bounces well

Genius and Species: Sylvilagus Graysoni

• rabbit or hare
• small, furry mammals with large ears and short tails
• born naked with closed eyes
• live in burrows
• life span of about ten years

Fun Facts

• cottontail are able to swim and climb trees when in danger

• the tail of the cottontail is used an alarm signal

• cottontails can breed again soon after mating once

• can run as fast as 20 miles per hour

Cottontail  

Cottontail is white.

It molts in the summer.

Now it is brown.

See references:

• http://www.encarta.com

• http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/sylvilagus/s._graysoni$narrative.html

• http://www.ibiologia.unam.mx/amcela/graysoni.html

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