331: Jackrabbits

Follow Ellen down the jackrabbit hole. We discuss facial tilt, satellite dish ears, evolutionary ghosts of predators past, touchdown dances, jackalopes, Easter, and so much more.

Works Cited:

• "A Field Guide to Jackrabbits (blog.nature.org/2022/11/09/a-field-guide-to-ja…)" - Matthew L. Miller, The Nature Conservancy, Nov 2022

• “Ecological correlates to cranial morphology in Leporids (Mammalia, Lagomorpha) (researchgate.net/publication/345691898_Ecologi…)” - Brian Kraatz et al., PeerJ, Dec 2014

• "Jackrabbit Gets a Touchdown! (youtu.be/mhZqFZjx2Z8?si=e9rFzLdIH9sqmZWX)" - YouTube

• “Celebrating Easter, Christmas and their associated alien fauna (tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00438243.2018…)” – Malene Lauritsen et al., World Archaeology, Oct 2018

• “The Shifting Baselines of the British Hare Goddess (researchgate.net/publication/346357286_The_Shi…)” - Luke John Murphy & Carly Ameen, Open Archaeology, August 2020

• “What Do Eggs Have To Do With Easter? (britannica.com/video/What-do-eggs-have-to-do-w…)” - Encyclopedia Britannica

• "Meet Jack (cityofdouglas.org/235/Meet-Jack)" - City of Douglas, Wyoming's website

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