Pygmy Rabbit

rabbits · burrow diggers · endangered

Tiny but mighty. The pygmy rabbit is the smallest wild rabbit species in North America, making it extra special compared to its bigger cousins.

Master digger. Unlike most rabbits, the pygmy rabbit digs its own burrows to live in underground, which only one other native North American rabbit does too.

Sagebrush home. These little rabbits live in the dry, shrubby areas of the western United States where sagebrush plants grow thick on the ground.

In trouble in one place. The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit population is so small and isolated that the U.S. government lists it as an endangered species that needs protection.