Eastern cottontail young are born with a very fine coat of hair and are blind.
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A major cause of eastern cottontail mortality is collision with automobiles.
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The eastern cottontail home range is roughly circular in uniform habitats.
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The eastern cottontail breeding season begins later with higher latitudes and elevations.
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Marsh rabbits are typically smaller than eastern cottontail rabbits.
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The eastern cottontail is a very territorial animal.
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In the eastern United States it is the eastern cottontail species, and in the north it is the snowshoe hare.
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The eastern cottontail is chunky red-brown or gray-brown in appearance with large hind feet, long ears and a short fluffy white tail.
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In southeastern Illinois tallgrass prairie, eastern cottontail nests were more common in undisturbed prairie grasses than in high-mowed or hayed plots.