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Ancestor: Long Rabbit 

Size: 75 cm nose to tail

Dietary Needs: Eats grass, herbaceous plants, young lower leaves of shrubs and fruit in season.

Life Cycle: They live in large family groups, sometimes of a few families knitted together into a community. They share upkeep of communal nesting areas, but are also territorial over personal space and individual dens. This includes not just male-male competition for mates, but female-female competition for a nursery. Mating and births occur before the start of the  summer, just in time for the warm growth period to arrive. Rivers swell after summer thunderstorms, so the rabbit young need to be developed enough to follow their family to higher ground. The ground becomes sodden from winter rains, so reproduction is also halted over this period.

Other: These rabbits act as a community to form multi-chambered nests out of grass. They push the grass out of the way and in to place, trim it by eating it, and even crudely weave it to form tunnels and chambers made of grass. They will sometimes add branches of thorny plants or spiny leaves as added fortification. Their nests can stay reasonably hidden in this grass. They will chase away other herbivores, even mobbing those larger than themselves to secure a territory free of uncontrolled grazing and accidental trampling.

This grass is not present all year in some of the genus range. They are capable of burrowing into soft or sandy soil, or roaming exposed as fast runners and swimmers, but they don't reproduce under these conditions.