The Eastern Cottontail Rabbit has a compact body with long hind legs, long ears, large brown eyes, and a small tail with a puffy white underside, which resembles a cotton ball. The fur is reddish-brown or grayish-brown in color with the fur around their nose, belly and underside of the tail being white. Almost all have a gray patch around the neck and the kits have an additional white mark on their forehead that fades as they mature. Cottontail Rabbits are herbivores and will eat many types of vegetation. They enjoy grasses, clover, weeds, dandelion, bulbs, many herbs, flowers, leaves and twigs.

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Looking for a great opossum story. Here is a wonderful picture book that you might want to get to read to your young children.

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