Caption: "The
Jack Rabbit
(i.e., black-tailed jackrabbit or California jackrabbit)
in California ...
observation of a pair of young
rabbits, from the time of their birth,
Febuary 26
(probably 1917),
until they were three months old ...
the play
instinct
develops those
activities---digging,
listening,
leaping,
running,
nest building---which
are to prove necessary for the life
of the adult ...
THE snow
was still on the mountains
of the Coast Range
(i.e., the California Coast Ranges) but the
foothills
were green,
buttercups
and mustard
were beginning to make the fields (i.e., meadows)
yellow,
and an occasional poppy
of the hosts to appear later was showing along
the roadside
or in the oat
fields---in
other words, it was February
in the
Santa Clara Valley.
I had been tramping the foothills, where
the most conspicuous evidence of life
is furnished by the jack rabbit (i.e., hare).
Now and again the gray forms had started up from the shelter of
rocks
or small bushes,
or sometimes had appeared suddenly as if materialized
from empty air,
to speed away with incredible swiftness.
Now I was at my desk
in the University
laboratory,
my back to the window
with its view of mountains and
foothills ... "
(Somewhat edited.)
How now can we eat
a chocolate
Easter Bunny?
Credit/Permission:
Mary Cynthia Dickerson
(1866--1923,
The American Museum Journal, Vol. XVII, 1917
(Natural History (magazine)
(known then as The American Museum Journal until 2002?))
(uploaded to
Wikimedia Commons
by User:Fae,
2015) /
Public domain.
CC BY-SA 2.0.
Image link: Wikimedia Commons: File:The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)).
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