​Desert Terrarium

Black Tailed Jac​krabbit

 

Scientific Name- Lepus californicus

Kingdom- Animalia 

Phylum- Chordata

Class- Mammalia

Order- Lagomorpha

Family- Leporidae

Genus- Lepus

Species- Lepus californicus

 

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The Black Tailed Jackrabbit is located 

throughout the southwestern United States 

and parts of Mexico, mostly in desert and sage brush habitats. The diet of the Black Tailed Jackrabbit consists of cacti, sagebrush, 

grasses, clover and other plants. Black-Tailed Jackrabbits do not dig burrows to dwell in.  

Rather, they prefer to sleep above ground to be able to hear predators that may be near.