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SpeciesLagomorphaLeporidae
Mammals

🐇Black-tailed jackrabbit

Lepus californicus Gray, 1837

الأرنبوس أسود الذيل (الإسم العلمي:Lepus californicus) أو القواع الأمريكي الصحراوي أو القواع الكاليفورني، هو نوع من الثدييات يتبع فصيلة الأرانب ضمن رتبة الأرنبيات. يمتاز بآذانه الطويلة وبقوة أقدامه الخلفية، يبلغ طوله حوالي 61 سم، ويبلغ وزنه حوالي 1،4-2،7 كغم.

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≈ 1/27th of your weight
Also called
Lepus californicus
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
2.32 kg
Body length
0.51 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
12 years
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Everything we know about the Black-tailed jackrabbit

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
2.32 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 4.17 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.51 m
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Brain mass
13 g
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Maximum lifespan
12 years
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  • 12 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
3.36 years
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Age at maturity
263 days
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Gestation
44 days
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  • 44 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 3
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Activity cycle
Nocturnal
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Home range
0.56 km²
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Population density
12 per km²
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Volume l
2.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Black-tailed jackrabbit yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
أرنبوس أسود الذيل (ar), Eselhase (de), Lepus californicus (es), Zwartstaarthaas (nl), калифорнийски заек (bg), llebre californiana (ca) … and 19 more languages

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