The Yunnan hare lives in foothills near farmland and in hillside scrub or grassland. It forages at night on grasses and young shoots and leaves.
The photograph on the Kunming Institute of Zoology page shows a mottled brown coat and long, upright ears.
It uses foothills near farmland, hillside scrub, and grassland, and searches for food at night.
It makes a shallow, dish-shaped nest in a slight depression in the ground. It eats grasses and young shrub shoots and leaves, and may feed on crop seedlings.
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