The eastern cottontail, Sylvilagus floridanus, is the most common rabbit species in North America inhabiting eastern and south-central United States, southern Canada, eastern Mexico, and the northernmost parts of South America. Cottontails are small solitary mammals weighing up to three pounds with brown fur, large ears, and a fluffy white tail. Due to a high predation rate cottontails reproduce often, with females averaging three to four litters of five babies—kits—per year. Preferring to live in edge environments, cottontails are commonly sighted between mass plantings of shrubs and turf—at Glenstone they can be spotting around Tony Smith’s Smug, 1973/2005, and along the trails and paths.