Perhaps the most distinctive difference between rabbits and hares are their sizes. Our resident hare, the Black-tailed Jackrabbit, is larger (body length: 24 inches) than either cottontail rabbit ...

That's why, as a hare that burrows, "Bugs Bunny is a fraud," Stott joked. There is an exception to the burrowing-bunny rule—the cottontail, a type of American rabbit that does not burrow.

And surely you remember the March Hare who turns up at the ... the Appalachian cottontail. https://.virginia.gov.wildlife.rabbit.appalachian." "Everybody knows what the eastern cottontail looks ...