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Eastern Cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus)🐇

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SpeciesLagomorphaLeporidae
Mammals

🐇Eastern cottontail

Sylvilagus floridanus (J.A.Allen, 1890)

O Coelho-da-Flórida (Sylvilagus floridanus) é um dos leporídeos mais comuns na América do Norte.

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vs you
≈ 1/53rd of your weight
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
1.18 kg
Body length
0.4 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
9.79 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Eastern cottontail

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

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

By sex

  • Female1.24 kgWikidataQ774716
  • Male1.13 kgWikidataQ774716

Figures vary

  • 1.15 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length
0.4 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
7.56 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
9.79 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 9.8 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length
3.03 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
106 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
29 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 30 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter size
about 5
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 5AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Details ↓

Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Home range
0.01 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
713 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
1.2 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 Eastern cottontail yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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More about the Eastern cottontail

What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
Florida-Waldkaninchen (de), Sylvilagus floridanus (es), floridai üreginyúl (hu), conill de Florida (ca), pumpulihäntäkaniini (fi), Lapin à queue blanche (fr) … and 19 more languages

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