Riverine rabbit

The riverine rabbit, Bunolagus monticularis, also called the bushman rabbit, lives among thick vegetation along seasonal rivers in the Karoo of South Africa's Western and Northern Cape provinces and is the only member of its genus. A medium-sized rabbit about 33.7 to 47.0 centimetres long, it has a dark brown stripe running from the lower jaw towards the base of the ears and a pale ring around each eye. It is solitary, nocturnal and herbivorous, feeding on grasses in the wet season and otherwise mostly on the flowers and leaves of dicotyledons, and it digs burrows in soft alluvial soil, which makes it the only African rabbit known to do so. Females produce only one or two young a year. The IUCN classified it as critically endangered in 2002, a 2016 estimate counted 157 to 207 mature individuals, and agricultural development has made more than half of its range unable to support it.