My name: desert cottontail, aka sylvilagus audubonii, for my white tail that looks like a cotton ball. My looks: I weigh in at about 2 pounds, and I'm tan or gray. I resemble other cottontails ...

It is often common throughout the Concho Valley. The desert cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii) is found in the western United States south to Central Mexico. It so far is known only from our region ...

Nuttall’s or mountain cottontail (Sylvilagus nuttallii) generally occupies wooded or brushy areas in the Upper Sonoran lifezone at elevations of 1372 m and 3200 m above sea level. Desert cottontail (S ...

The ears of a desert cottontail (Sylvilagus audubonii) help the mammal keep cool under the baking sun with a network of blood vessels that acts like a car radiator.

Peekaboo with the Sylvilagus audubonii ... they also go by desert-horned lizard, banded Gila monster, desert cottontail and tiger whiptail lizard, respectively -- but we know you already knew ...