Jackrabbit Poop Traditional Cache
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Accessible by bike or wheelchair but beware of the Goatheads. I picked up five in my bike tires when I placed the cache. Fortunately this time they didn't pop my tires.
BEWARE THE GOATHEADS!
The Black-tailed Jackrabbit (Lepus californicus), also known as the Desert Hare, is a common hare of the western United States and Mexico.
The Blacktail has distinctive long ears, and the long, powerful rear legs characteristic of hares. Reaching a length of about two feet, and a weight from three to six pounds, the Black-tailed Jackrabbit is the third largest North American hare.
The hares drink very little, deriving most of their water from
their food. Like most hares, Black-tailed Jackrabbits do not use burrows, but rest during the day in a shallow scrape, called a "form," dug into the soil and usually under the cover of available vegetation.
Black-tailed Jackrabbits rely on their acute hearing and speed and to evade predators. They can reach speeds of up to 40–45 mph, and can leap 19 feet in single bound.
Their natural predators include Red-tailed Hawks, and eagles, as well as carnivores such as coyotes, foxes, and bobcats.
Hares do not bear their young below ground in a burrow as do other leporids A doe usually gives birth to her offspring in a shallow depression or flattened nest of grass called a form. Hares are adapted to the lack of physical protection, relative to that afforded by a burrow, by being born fully furred and with eyes open. They are hence able to fend for themselves soon after birth. By contrast, the related rabbits and cottontail rabbits are altricial, having young that are born blind and hairless.
If there are multiple leverets in a litter, she will usually not leave them in a single location. This may be an evolutionary adaptation that prevents a predator from devouring an entire litter. Gestation lasts 45 days.
When I was young I would often go out and hunt rabbits. I always left the jackrabbits alone because everyone told me that they carried desease. It turns out they were correct. They carry a desease called Tularemia which is named after Tulare California.
Tularemia (also known as "rabbit fever"), is a serious infectious disease. Tularensis was discovered in 1911 during an outburst of rabbit fever, when the disease killed a large number of ground squirrels in the area of Tulare Lake in California. Scientists determined that tularemia could be
dangerous to humans; a human being may catch the infection after contacting an infected animal.
Hoped you learned a little about these “Pesky Wabbits”.
The cache container is a medium pill bottle with a couple of trade items and a dollar for the FTF.
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