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Rabbit tracks

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Field Notes

Description:

Rabbit tracks in snow.

Habitat:

High desert.

Notes:

When rabbits travel, first their small front paws touch the ground, then the larger back feet travel over the paws still on the ground, and land in front of the planted front paws. Therefore, tracks of the front paws lie behind the tracks of the back paws.

Because lagomorphs’ front feet land one after the other, their bound is called an offset bound.

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