Blacktailed Jackrabbit Lepus Califonicus

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Black-tailed JackrabbitLepus Califonicus

• Vanessa Schroeder

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Habitat

• Prairies, pastures and haylands in South-West and
  central Missouri
• Well suited for the glades do not need much
  water
• Arid regions with small amounts of vegetation
• attain moisture through plants

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Reasons for Endangerment

• Thousands killed for fur and meat
• Loss of natural habitat, native grasses in
  Missouri disappearing
• Non-native trees, houses, roads and crops are all
  encroaching upon natural habitat
• High mortality rate, few survive more than one
  year, less than two percent survive past three

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Importance

• Major food source for coyotes
• Few alternate prey
• Critical to ecosystem

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Protection

• Replace non-native plants with native warm season
  plants
• No longer allowed to hunt them in Missouri
• Open grassland is disappearing, restoration of
  native habitat increase jackrabbit population
• Have not been spotted in Missouri recently

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Works Cited

• Bartel, Rebecca A., and Frederick F. Knowlton.
  "Functional Feeding Responses of Coyotes, Canis
  Latrans, to Fluctuating Prey Abundance in the
  Curlew Valley, Utah, 1977-1993." Canadian Journal
  of Zoology (1993) 569-576.
• Salveter, Amy, and Janet Sternberg. "Missouri
  Animals of Conservation Concern." 2000. 15 Oct.
  2007 lthttp//mdc.mo.gov/documents/nathis/endangere
  d/animals_concern.pdfgt.
• Smith, Graham W., Charles Stoddart, and
  Frederick F. Knowlton. "Long Distance Movements
  of Black-Tailed Jackrabbits." The Journal of
  Wildlife Management 66 (2002) 463-469. J Stor.
• Images
• homestudy.ihea.com/wildlifeID/fws_jackrabbit.jpg
• http//www.discoverlife.org/mp/20o?searchLepusca
  lifornicusguideMammalia