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.
USFWS/Ann Froschauer/courtesy photo
April 26, 2020
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April 26, 2020 11:47 p.m.
America’s tiniest rabbit is hopping back home
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.