Common tapeti

The common tapeti, Sylvilagus brasiliensis, also known as the Brazilian cottontail or forest cottontail, is a cottontail rabbit. Under the narrower definition of the species adopted after taxonomic revision, the true common tapeti occurs only in the Atlantic Rainforest of coastal northeastern Brazil, and the IUCN classifies it as endangered. It weighs an average of 934 grams. It is a solitary animal usually seen after nightfall or before dawn, described as nocturnal or more accurately crepuscular, and it feeds on grass and browse. It is found in forested habitats close to swamps and along river edges and in disturbed areas such as gardens and plantations, and wider descriptions place the name in tropical rain forests, deciduous forests, second-growth forests and pastures around forest in Mexico and Central America.