Ethiopian hare

The Ethiopian hare, Lepus fagani, is a hare first described in 1903 by the British mammalogist Oldfield Thomas. Its dorsal fur is brownish buff, finely grizzled with black, and its underparts are fluffy and white. It is endemic to Ethiopia, where it is found in the Afromontane Biozone and on the borders of the Sudanian Savanna Biozone, west of the Rift Valley in the Ethiopian Highlands and abundantly around Lake Tana. It inhabits grasslands, steppes, grassy parts of forests and forest peripheries, and prefers a less open habitat than the Abyssinian hare. It is usually considered part of a complex with the African savanna hare and the scrub hare, and some authors have treated it as a subspecies of one of them.