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This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Canada.There are approximately 200 mammal species in Canada. [1] Its large territorial size consist of fifteen terrestrial and five marine ecozones, ranging from oceanic coasts, to mountains to plains to urban housing, mean that Canada can harbour a great variety of species, including nearly half of the known cetaceans. [2]
In the 1950s and 1960s, the eastern cottontail was introduced to France and northern Italy, where it displayed a rapid territorial expansion and increase in population density. [6] The population in the mountains of the southwestern United States and western Mexico is now thought to be a distinct species, the robust cottontail (S. holzneri). [7]
Genus Pentalagus – Lyon, 1904 – one species Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population Amami rabbit. P. furnessi (Stone, 1900) Southern tip of Japan: Size: 39–53 cm (15–21 in) long, plus 2–4 cm (1–2 in) tail [84] Habitat: Forest, shrubland, and intertidal marine [85]
Cottontail rabbits are in the Sylvilagus genus, which is in the Leporidae family. They are found in the Americas . [ 1 ] Most Sylvilagus species have stub tails with white undersides that show when they retreat, giving them their characteristic name.
The term rabbit is typically used for all Leporidae species, excluding the genus Lepus. Members of that genus are known as hares [20] or jackrabbits. [21] Lepus species are precocial, born relatively mature and mobile with hair and good vision out in the open air, while rabbit species are altricial, born hairless and blind in burrows and buried ...
The presence of cover is the primary determinant of habitat quality, and is more significant than food availability or species composition. [23] Species composition does, however, influence population density; dense softwood understories support greater snowshoe hare density than hardwoods because of cover quality.
The common name "rabbit" usually applies to all genera in the family except Lepus, while members of Lepus (almost half the species) usually are called hares. Like most common names, however, the distinction does not match current taxonomy completely; jackrabbits are members of Lepus , and members of the genera Pronolagus and Caprolagus ...
The rabbits remain active all year. When spooked a rabbit will run a couple meters then hide and freeze with ears erect, if further pursued the rabbit will hop away in a semicircular path to try and trick the predator. The only behavior to reduce predation is limiting active time to dusk and dawn, and the semicircular path they hop when chased.