{"id":10546,"date":"2016-06-22T19:39:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T00:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10546"},"modified":"2016-06-23T07:11:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T12:11:18","slug":"eastern-cottontail-sylvilagus-floridanus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10546","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Cottontail (<em>Sylvilagus floridanus<\/em>)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10548\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_20160622_127462.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10548\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10548\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_20160622_127462-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Eastern Cottontail (&lt;em&gt;Sylvilagus floridanus&lt;\/em&gt;)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10548\" data-wp-pid=\"10548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_20160622_127462-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_20160622_127462-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_20160622_127462-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_20160622_127462-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_20160622_127462-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/img_20160622_127462.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eastern Cottontail (<em>Sylvilagus floridanus<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;d say that there are a lot of rabbits in our neighborhood but that would be understating it by considerable. This is an eastern cottontail (<em>Sylvilagus floridanus<\/em>), one of the most common rabbit species in North America. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/animaldiversity.org\/accounts\/Sylvilagus_floridanus\/\" target=\"_Animal\">AnimalDiversity.org<\/a> it &#x201c;has the widest distribution of any Sylvilagus. It is found from southern Manitoba and Quebec to Central and northwestern South America. In the contiguous United States, the eastern cottontail ranges from the east to the Great Plains in the west.&#x201d; I came out the front door this evening with my camera just as Cathy got home. There were three rabbits in our front yard. We went for a walk and saw more. When we got home, there were not only three in the front yard but a couple in the back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d say that there are a lot of rabbits in our neighborhood but that would be understating it by considerable. This is an eastern cottontail (Sylvilagus floridanus), one of the most common rabbit species in North America. According to AnimalDiversity.org it &#x201c;has the widest distribution of any Sylvilagus. It is found from southern Manitoba and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=10546\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10546"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10549,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10546\/revisions\/10549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}