In Washington State, the race is on to save a diminutive bunny as wildfires threaten its already shrinking habitat The Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit relies on sagebrush for food and shelter ...

Small enough to fit in your hand, pygmy rabbits are the world’s smallest rabbit. They’re also the only North American rabbits who dig their own burrows. They need continuous expanses of sagebrush for ...

The pygmy rabbits at Northwest Trek Wildlife Park were dying. Rapidly. On one visit to their pens at the wildlife preserve, about 95 km south of Seattle, they would be munching contentedly on fresh ...

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a pygmy rabbit researcher with the University of Nevada, Reno. “They appear to be declining and less able to recover because of the continued degradation and fragmentation of the sagebrush steppe.” ...

As rabbits go, “cute and cuddly” is often the standard. But there is one rabbit that is considered to be “scientifically cute” — the smallest rabbit in the world, the pygmy rabbit.