With white-tailed deer, which also have target-like rumps and run away in groups that's supposed to disorient predators and make it more difficult for them to pick one target. With more solitary cottontails I'm not sure that that strategy is analogous. I'll have to look it up.
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Date: 2009-01-28 02:45 pm (UTC)