Family LEPORIDAE

(HARES AND RABBITS)

• Small to medium-sized lagomorphs with short fluffy tails, soft thick pelage, and large eyes; ears project upward; hindlimbs longer than forelimbs.

• 23-68 cm.

• Holarctic, Afrotropical, Indo-Malayan, and Neotropical Regions.

• Forests, shrubby areas, grasslands, deserts, tundra, alpine slopes, and agricultural landscapes up to 5400 m.

• 11 genera, 63 species, 269 taxa.

• 2 species Critically Endangered; 7 species Endangered; b species Vulnerable; no species Extinct since 1600.