jackrabbits
Long-eared sprinters
Jackrabbits are large North American hares with long ears and powerful hind legs built for speed.
Despite the name, they're hares, not rabbits—born fully furred with open eyes, living above ground rather than in burrows.
A jackrabbit bounded across the desert road.
The name comes from "jackass rabbit," a reference to their donkey-like ears.
Large, swift relatives of rabbits
- desertTo leave behind completely
- sagebrushAromatic arid-land shrub
- earsAuditory organs, paired
- speedRate of motion
burrows · nocturnal · camouflage · predators · coyotes · hawks · grassland · prairie
Moving by leaps
- leapingSpringing into air
- sprintingMaximum-speed locomotion on foot
- zigzagAngled back-and-forth path
- accelerationRate velocity changes
escape · agility · explosive · pursuit · evasion · stride · darting · velocity
Auditory organs, paired
tail · eyes · thermoregulation · hearing · alertness · camouflage · lanky · lean
Troublesome wild animal
- quarryPit for extracting rock
- coursingMoving swiftly through
- greyhoundsFast, lean racing dogs
- sighthoundsDogs hunting by vision
game · sport · pest · ranchers · farmers · population · culling · rifle
hares
Large, swift relatives of rabbits
speed · burrows · nocturnal · camouflage · predators · coyotes · hawks · grassland · prairie · scrubland
bounding
Moving by leaps
acceleration · escape · agility · explosive · pursuit · evasion · stride · darting · velocity · bursts
ears
Auditory organs, paired
whiskers · tail · eyes · thermoregulation · hearing · alertness · camouflage · lanky · lean · coat
varmint
Troublesome wild animal
- quarryPit for extracting rock
- coursingMoving swiftly through
- greyhoundsFast, lean racing dogs
sighthounds · game · sport · pest · ranchers · farmers · population · culling · rifle · shotgun
trickster
Cunning deceiver in myth
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- hornedHaving bony projections
- jackalopeFictional antlered rabbit
mythology · taxidermy · postcards · American West · tall tales · roadside · kitsch · souvenir · legend · humor
- TexasAlamo, Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio
- desert lifecamel, cactus, scorpion, rattlesnake, sidewinder
- Joshua TreeJoshua trees, yuccas, yucca, rock formations, Mojave Desert
- prairiesprairies, prairie grass, grasslands, grassland, tallgrass
- Colorado DesertCoachella Valley, Colorado River, cholla, barrel cactus, bighorn sheep
- Great BasinGreat Basin, Nevada, sagebrush, salt flats, playas
jackrabbitshippos
Large semi-aquatic African mammals
elephants · rhinoceroses · walruses · pigs
- jackrabbit startsOverly rapid accelerations