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North American "rabbits" are all actually hares, even our common Cotton Tail and Snowshoe.

They live in nests in thickets and wood piles and occasionally they will move into an abbandoned burrow but they never dig their own. They eat sweet grasses, such as timothy. alfalfa, clover and garden greens. In the winter, when food is scarce they will eat bark from sapplings and cedar.

They are preyed upon by every animal that eats meat, from housecat to bears, raptors and man, even squirrels will raid a hares nest to eat the young.

The size of their litters vary effected by local hare population and availability of food.

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