The marsh rabbit is a wetland rabbit of the southeastern United States that eats grasses and other marsh plants.
Its back is brown and its underside is paler.
The Lower Keys marsh rabbit is an endangered subspecies living in the lower Florida Keys. From 2013 to 2015, Cove and colleagues set camera traps at 84 locations on Big Pine Key. They recorded rabbit use at 59 sites with suitable habitat and 25 sites representing the surrounding landscape.
Rabbit site use was more likely where freshwater habitat was present and habitat patches were larger. At sites where cameras recorded more free-ranging cats, the estimated chance of rabbit use was lower.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
At 84 Big Pine Key sites, Lower Keys marsh rabbit use was more likely in freshwater habitat and larger patches. Estimated use was lower where cameras recorded more free-ranging cats.