The Cottontails were now sole owners of the holes, and did not go near them when they could help it, lest anything like a path should be made that might betray these last retreats to an enemy.
It is not long since the foes of the Cottontails were disgusted to find that man had brought a new kind of bramble and planted it in long lines throughout the country.
It was open and sloping to the sun, and here on fine days the Cottontails took their sun-baths.
Four of the six cottontails were killed by bites on top of the head and ear; two cottontails succumbed from neck wounds.
In three instances, neither of two weasels could be induced to make a determined attack on the cottontails or to kill them.
At times the cottontails proved to be able opponents for weasels by striking out with their front feet and by kicking with their strong hind legs.
Some further confusion as to names that Nelson intended to apply to cottontails in Nebraska resulted from the fact that his map (op.
Though these seasonal "snowshoes" do not approach those of the Arctic hare in size, they serve very well to support the lighter cottontails as they move over the soft surface.
Though here included with the rodents, the jackrabbits, snowshoe hares, and cottontails all lack the dexterity with the forepaws with which the rest of the group is endowed.
In areas which are being logged, cottontails are quick to take advantage of the shelter offered by huge piles of limbs and debris left by loggers.
Later in the season, when the piles are burned, it is not unusual to see as many as three or four cottontails scurry from one pile.
It was open and sloping to the sun, and here on fine days the Cottontails took their sunbaths.
Bait may be used but is unnecessary, since cottontails frequently take refuge in dark places from enemies or inclement weather.
While a few cottontails are sometimes included in the catch, these usually find refuge in open burrows or under cover of rocks or brush, so that this method is hardly applicable to them.
Cottontails are often chased with foxhounds, but the beagle is rapidly taking precedence as a favorite for hunting these animals, the gun being used to secure the game.
It is effective against both cottontails and large rabbits.
Cottontails and brush rabbits use prickly-pear cactus extensively as refuge.
Habitually cottontails escape predators in partly open terrain offering retreats such as low, thick brush, rock piles, and cactus patches; but on open ground beneath dense chaparral, cottontails may be vulnerable to predation.
Examinations of feces and stomach contents of the coyote reveals that it preys more heavily on cottontails than on any other wild species.
These thorns probably were acquired while the bobcats foraged for woodrats or cottontailsin the patches of prickly-pear, which are locally abundant in the sage belt.
In the pinyon-juniper associationcottontails and jack rabbits probably occur in roughly equal numbers, but in the Joshua tree belt cottontails seem far less numerous than jack rabbits.
In the foothills, when frightened from cover in one small wash cottontails often run up over an adjacent low ridge and seek cover in the brush of the next wash.
Cottontails are seldom above the sage belt in the chaparral associations, although along firebreaks and roads they occasionally occur there.
In the course of a two hour hike in lower Mescal Wash, at about 3500 feet, eleven jack rabbits and two cottontails were noted.
Remains of cottontails were found in the stomachs of two bobcats.
Coyotes catch many jack rabbits and regularly forage around the foothill borders of the citrus groves for cottontails and jack rabbits.
In the wash below Graham Canyon tracks and observations showed that cottontails were taking refuge in deserted burrows of kit foxes.
Remains of several cottontails eaten by raptors were found in the sage belt.
Cottontails usually did not move more than 75 feet from suitable cover.
Nine cottontails between six weeks and 18 weeks of age lived in areas of about two acres.
Experiments were made periodically throughout the trapping period to determine which bait was most attractive to cottontails and least attractive to birds, rodents, skunks, raccoons, and opossums.
Ten per cent of the cottontails released from live-traps did not stop running until out of sight (always more than 30 feet).
Most of the yearcottontails rest in forms of grass or brush near woodland edges but in extremely cold or hot weather they seek the greater protection of the woods.
Cottontails were marked individually at the time of first capture.
Corn and scratch-feed attractedcottontails best in all seasons.
Cottontails were most active at dawn and especially, dusk, and were more active on dark nights than on moonlight nights.
Eighty per cent of the cottontails resting under the rock outcrops were found in severe winter weather.
Cottontails establish a home range where they are born and enlarge it to nearly full size the first winter.
SIZE AND SHAPE OF HOME RANGE Of the 89 cottontails observed in the study, 35 were captured in live-traps only once and were never seen in the field or trailed.
Cottontails three weeks to five months of age lived in home ranges of between 0.
Jackrabbits don't usually burrow, but cottontails always do when they need shelter.
Jackrabbits brought ten cents each and cottontails brought six or eight cents.
The Cottontails run into the first opening they see and never keep on running as their cousins do.
The picnic is over for this night, and it will be some time before the cottontails so far forget themselves as to play in this place again.
The full moon rises above the trees, and the cottontails start over.
Tens of thousands of cottontails in Kansas and Missouri (Sylvilagus floridanus and some S.
Several cottontails were seen in and under the old barn.
Several cottontails were seen in this field, and a few mole ridges were noted.
Cottontails were noted a few times in blackberry thickets, in brush in ravines, in clearings along the river, and in beech-maple-oak forest along ravines.
Cottontails often have their forms under the edges of houses, either occupied or deserted.
In 1948, when livestock grazed on the area, and the ground cover of herbaceous vegetation was relatively sparse, cottontails were much less abundant than they were later when the vegetation was protected.
Why, any man, with nerve and savvee, can start them cottontails jumping for the brush.
The cottontails did the rest all right, and the trust gathered in Chattanooga Coal and Iron.
They bagged a pair of cottontails and a number of quail, and when they did speak, it was only regarding the hunt or the preparations for the coming exodus.
Quail and cottontails were to be found on the plateau where the stock was grazing.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cottontails" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
