America’s tiniest rabbit is hopping back home
The tiny Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit is making a comeback thanks to a collaboration between Washington State University and the Oregon Zoo.
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A Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit hides under brush during a heavy snow.
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A Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit lounging in the underbrush.
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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Judy Neibauer holds a pygmy rabbit as Washington state Department of Fish and Wildlife technician Claire Satterwhite takes a small genetic sample of ear tissue.
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GRANT COUNTY — If, while hiking through certain stretches of sagebrush in northern Grant County, one were to see a silent flash of brown in the underbrush, it might be the continent’s smallest species of Leporidae, the pygmy rabbit.
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