Endangered
Annamite striped rabbit
Nesolagus timminsi
Annamite striped rabbit is a mammal in the family Leporidae (order Lagomorpha) — Nesolagus timminsi, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The Annamite striped rabbit is a short-eared, short-tailed rabbit with black or dark brown stripes running along its body against the buff base color of its fur. It has a rust-colored rump and is white on its underside. The rabbit has short ears, black or dark brown stripes against a buff-colored body, and a red rump.
No typical measurements are available for the species due to the absence of a complete specimen, besides one measurement of a skull that describes its greatest length as 78.9 millimeters (3.11 in).
Range and habitat
The Annamite striped rabbit's distribution includes the northern, central, and southern regions of the Annamite Range. Annamite striped rabbits live in wet evergreen forest habitats, and have been found at altitudes ranging from 50 to 1,400 meters (160 to 4,590 ft) above sea level. While the species could potentially live closer to sea level, there are few extant habitats at such low elevations.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The Annamite striped rabbit is nocturnal and herbivorous. Records from camera traps indicate that it is a solitary animal, with one study reporting only one pair of rabbits found in 104 recorded events.
It is herbivorous and lives a solitary lifestyle. Efforts to conserve the existing rabbit populations include captive breeding programs and removal of snare traps.
In crisis
As many large carnivores within its range have declined in population, the rabbit is thought to be threatened only by one predator, the leopard cat. The Annamite striped rabbit is threatened by hunting and poaching and is listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as an endangered species. The Annamite striped rabbit is primarily threatened by hunting, as it is often caught in snare traps set both by subsistence hunters and poachers.
Agricultural cultivation and extensive road building throughout Laos and Vietnam have caused habitat loss and degradation, but hunting remains the primary threat. In 2018, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assessed the species as being endangered based on the high level of snaring activity in Vietnam, that is causing sharp declines in ground-dwelling small mammals in the region.
Annamite striped rabbit is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Annamite striped rabbit, Wikidata item Q564479. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
