This was followed by the mini-adventure " The Jackrabbits ' Lair ", written by Daniel J. Maxfield, in Pegasus, a magazine published by Judges Guild.

* The Jackrabbits ' Lair ( Daniel J. Maxfield ).

SDSU's athletic mascot for both the men's and women's teams is the Jackrabbit, Both the men's and women's sports teams are officially referred to as the Jackrabbits although some fans and media writers ( incorrectly ) call the women's teams " Lady " Jackrabbits or " Lady " Jacks.

The Jackrabbits have 21 varsity sports and numerous intramural and club teams.

In 2012, the Jackrabbits men's and women's basketball teams both won Summit League titles, both gaining a berth in the NCAA Tournaments.

The Dakota Marker is the trophy awarded to the winner of the annual college football game played between the South Dakota State University ( SDSU ) Jackrabbits and the North Dakota State University ( NDSU ) Bison.

The City of Graford is served by the Graford Independent School District and home to the Graford High School Jackrabbits.

The Coyotes had a long spirited intrastate rivalry with the South Dakota State Jackrabbits, until 2004 when SDSU moved to Division I athletics and the two schools stopped competing in major sports.

However, they can also prey on marmots, White-tailed Jackrabbits, small domestic dogs, domestic cats, or female Wild Turkey, all of which are easily double the weight of most Red-tails.

* Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot vs. the Jurassic Jackrabbits from Jupiter ( 2002 )

Jackrabbits and coyotes are the most common animals coursed in America.

Coursing of White-tailed Jackrabbits is organised by a smaller body, the North American Coursing Association.

Seeds are dispersed by Jackrabbits ( mostly the Black-tailed Jackrabbit Lepus californicus spp.

Many of the company's television, outdoor, in-store, and print ads feature animals including pot-bellied pigs, rabbits, a tree frog, a monkey, a lizard, a duck, fish, a hedgehog, a meerkat, an owl, and lately have been focusing on pygmy goats.

A number of animals are present including African pygmy goats, black-breasted leaf turtles, giant African millipedes, gopher snakes, green-crested basilisks, guinea pigs, sheep, Nigerian dwarf goats, Northern Pygmy Owls, ocellated rays, Parma wallabies, poison dart frogs, rabbits, rats, and tiger rat snakes.

The elevational range of pygmy rabbits in Nevada extends from and in California from.

Some woody species found on sites inhabited by pygmy rabbits in southeastern Idaho include big sagebrush, antelope bitterbrush ( Purshia tridentata ), threetip sagebrush ( A. tripartita ), low rabbitbrush ( C. viscidiflorus ), gray horsebrush ( Tetradymia canescens ), and prickly phlox ( Leptodactylon pungens ).

In the Upper Sonoran Desert pygmy rabbits occur in desert sagebrush associations dominated by big sagebrush and rabbitbrush with bitterbrush and sulphurflower ( Eriogonum umbellatum var.

The breeding season of pygmy rabbits is very short.

The gestation period of pygmy rabbits is unknown.

Individual sagebrush plants in areas inhabited by pygmy rabbits are often 6 feet ( 1. 8 m ) or more in height.

stands of big sagebrush along streams, roads, and fencerows provide dispersal corridors for pygmy rabbits.

When pygmy rabbits can utilize sagebrush cover, burrow use is decreased.

In Oregon, pygmy rabbits inhabited areas where soils were significantly deeper and looser than soils at adjacent sites.

In areas where soil is shallow pygmy rabbits live in holes among volcanic rocks, in stone walls, around abandoned buildings, and in burrows made by badgers ( Taxidea taxus ) and marmots ( Marmota flaviventris ).

Some researchers have found that pygmy rabbits never venture farther than from their burrows.

However, Bradfield observed pygmy rabbits range up to from their burrows.

Some areas inhabited by pygmy rabbits are covered with several feet of snow for up to 2 or more months during the winter.

During periods when the snow has covered most of the sagebrush, pygmy rabbits tunnel beneath the snow to find food.

In southeastern Idaho, woody cover and shrub heights were significantly ( P < 0. 01 ) greater on sites occupied by pygmy rabbits than on other sites in the same area.

The primary food of pygmy rabbits is big sagebrush, which may comprise up to 99 % of the food eaten in the winter.

In southeastern Idaho, Green and Flinders found that pygmy rabbits ate big sagebrush throughout the year but in lesser amounts in summer ( 51 % of diet ) than in winter ( 99 % of diet ).

) are the principal predators of pygmy rabbits.

Coyote ( Canis latrans ), red fox ( Vulpes vulpes ), badger, bobcat ( Felis rufus ), great horned owl ( Bubo virginianus ) and marsh hawk ( Circus cyaneus ) also prey on pygmy rabbits.

* Fish and Wildlife Science Magazine, article on captive breeding program for pygmy rabbits ( with several photos )

The most common are the Clark's nutcracker, black-capped chickadee, mountain chickadee, boreal chickadee, red-breasted nuthatch, pygmy nuthatch, red crossbill, white-winged crossbill, dark-eyed junco, and pine siskin.

The mountain pygmy possum ( Burramys parvus ) is a small, mouse-sized ( weighs 45 g ) nocturnal marsupial of Australia found in dense alpine rock screes and boulder fields, mainly southern Victoria and around Mount Kosciuszko in Kosciuszko National Park in New South Wales at elevations from 1300 to 2230 m. At almost 14 cm, its prehensile tail is longer than its 11 cm combined head and body length.

The mountain pygmy possum was first described as a Pleistocene fossil by Robert Broom in 1896.

To further preserve the mountain pygmy possum, a small proportion of the Perisher Blue Ski Resort, New South Wales, Australia, has been ' roped-off ' to prevent resort guests ( skiers and snowboarders ) from disturbing the possums whilst they hibernate.

It is estimated that there are only about 2000 mountain pygmy possums remaining.

* ARKive – images and movies of the mountain pygmy possum ( Burramys parvus )

Of major faunal significance is the mountain pygmy possum ( Burramys parvus ), which from 1894 until 1966 was only known from the fossil record.