Dice's cottontail

Dice's cottontail, Sylvilagus dicei, is a cottontail rabbit native to the Cordillera de Talamanca mountain range in Costa Rica and Panama. It is found at elevations up to 3,800 metres and lives in paramo grasslands and cloud forest. Bamboo is a staple of its diet, which also includes grasses and other leafy vegetation. A specimen described from El Copey de Dota in Costa Rica at 1,800 metres was noted as the largest known species in the group of forest rabbits related to the common tapeti, and the mammalogist George Gilbert Goodwin listed it in 1946 as the greater Costa Rican forest hare. The IUCN considers it a vulnerable species, and Costa Rica has banned hunting of the animal since 2012.