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cottontail
noun
A rabbit of any of various species in genus .
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White-tailed deer, foxes, cottontail rabbits, skunks, woodchucks, squirrels, chipmunks, and gophers are common in all areas.
More than 100 distinct types of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) have been identified by DNA analysis, and there are numerous types of animal papillomaviruses, including bovine papillomavirus (BPV), canine oral papillomavirus (COPV), and cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (CRPV; or Shope papillomavirus).
Large cats (jaguar and puma) are becoming scarce, but cottontail rabbits abound, and collared peccaries are fairly plentiful, as are wild turkeys and smaller game birds.
If ever there was a species born to show jump, it's the rabbit - and here, in a GIF currently topping the Reddit hot chart, one fine young cottontail shows the other bunnies how it's done.
There are also numerous smaller mammals, including gray and red squirrels, minks, raccoons, muskrats, skunks, jackrabbits, cottontail rabbits, groundhogs, and a variety of mice and moles.
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Haulover Beach in Miami, the country's largest, lures more than 1.3m visitors each year, many of them "cottontails" (white-bummed novices), says Shirley Mason, the beach's founder.
This is the challenge facing the nudist travel industry: few people know they want to do it until they try it, perhaps by stumbling on an inviting beach of cottontails.
Small mammals such as deer mice, eastern cottontails, snowshoe hares, woodchucks, gray squirrels, muskrats, and raccoons are common.
They are absent in domesticated rabbits, small or rudimentary in cottontails, large in armadillos, and variable in sloths.
The tail is usually a small puff of fur, generally brownish but white on top in the cottontails (genus Sylvilagus) of North and South America.
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