Annamite striped rabbit

The Annamite striped rabbit, Nesolagus timminsi, is a rabbit native to the Annamite mountain range on the Laos-Vietnam border. It has short ears, black or dark brown stripes on a buff-coloured body, and a red rump, and it resembles the closely related Sumatran striped rabbit of the Barisan Mountains in Indonesia. Biologist Robert Timmins first saw the species in 1996 in a market in Ban Lak in Laos, and it was formally described in 2000. Little is known of its ecology and behaviour; it is herbivorous and solitary, and it lives in wet evergreen forest at altitudes of 50 to 1,400 metres, though it has also been recorded in heavily logged rice fields and degraded forest. Hunting and poaching threaten it, and the IUCN lists it as endangered. Conservation efforts include captive breeding and removal of snare traps, and its distribution is predicted to shrink by more than half by 2060.