[Sca-cooks] Pre-Columbian Foods

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> Old World rabbits are genus Oryctolagus.  New World rabbits are more
> properly hares in genus Lepus.

*blink*

New world rabbits are either Sylvilagus (cottontails) or Lepus (hares)
depending on which one you are discussing-- jackrabbits and showshoe hares
are hares.

Sylvilagus has some of the features of both hares and rabbits-- the babies
are born blind and naked, but cottontails don't build burrows, but use
'forms' in the grass instead.

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