The volcano rabbit, Romerolagus diazi, also known as the teporingo or zacatuche, is a small rabbit that lives in pine and alder forests on volcanic slopes in Mexico. It is one of the smallest rabbits in the world, with an adult weight of 386 to 602 grams and a total length of 23.4 to 31.1 centimetres, and it has small rounded ears under 4 centimetres long. It lives in groups of two to five and makes burrows and runways among bunchgrasses, preferring tall, dense vegetation such as the zacaton grasses. It is endemic to an area of only 386 square kilometres just southeast of Mexico City, in alpine scrublands around four volcanoes: Cerro Tlaloc, Popocatepetl, Iztaccihuatl and El Pelado. Overgrazing, hunting and burning of its preferred scrublands have caused significant declines in population even in protected parks, and both the IUCN and the Mexican government consider it an endangered species.
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is a species of small rabbit that lives in pine and alder forests on volcanic slopes in Mexico
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is a species of small rabbit that lives in pine and alder forests on volcanic slopes in Mexico
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have caused significant declines in population, even in protected parks
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The volcano rabbit (Romerolagus diazi) (Spanish: conejo de los volcanes), also known as the teporingo or zacatuche, is a species of small rabbit that lives in pine and alder forests on volcanic slopes in Mexico.
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is a species of small rabbit that lives in pine and alder forests on volcanic slopes in Mexico
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in alpine scrublands surrounding four volcanoes
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The volcano rabbit (Romerolagus diazi) (Spanish: conejo de los volcanes), also known as the teporingo or zacatuche, is a species of small rabbit that lives in pine and alder forests on volcanic slopes in Mexico.
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The volcano rabbit (Romerolagus diazi) (Spanish: conejo de los volcanes), also known as the teporingo or zacatuche, is a species of small rabbit that lives in pine and alder forests on volcanic slopes in Mexico.
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