Japanese hare Japanese hare The Japanese hare ("Lepus brachyurus") is a species of hare native to Japan. Coenraad Jacob Temminck described the Japanese hare in 1845. The species name is derived from the Ancient Greek "brachys" "short" and "ouros" "tail". The four subspecies of this hare are: The Japanese hare is reddish-brown, with a body length that ranges from , and a body weight of . Its tail grows to lengths of . Its front legs can be from long and the back legs from long. The ears grow to be long, and the tail long. In areas of northern Japan, the
Pygmy rabbit Pygmy rabbit The pygmy rabbit ("Brachylagus idahoensis") is a North American rabbit, and is one of only two rabbit species in America to dig its own burrow . The pygmy rabbit differs significantly from species within either the "Lepus" (hare) or "Sylvilagus" (cottontail) genera and is generally considered to be within the monotypic genus Brachylagus. One isolated population, the Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit, is listed as an endangered species by the U.S. Federal government, though the International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the species as lower risk. The pygmy rabbit is the world's smallest leporid, with mean adult weights