White-sided jackrabbit

The white-sided jackrabbit, Lepus callotis, also known as the Mexican hare, is a medium-sized hare native to the United States and Mexico, with cinnamon, ochre and black fur on its head and body and conspicuous white sides that it flashes when it bounds away from danger. It ranges from southern New Mexico to northwestern and central Mexico and favours grasslands rich in tobosagrass and blue grama, and it also occurs in savanna and pasture. It makes shelters called forms that are more elaborate than those of other hares, is most active at night and at dusk, and a male and female form a pair bond during the breeding season. The IUCN considers it vulnerable. Numbers have fallen in New Mexico, where road kills from nighttime Border Patrol traffic were identified as the main cause, and the species is hunted for meat and sport in Mexico.