In the summer, shelters are built in spots near rocks, shrubs or even in old badger holes. When the winter snow arrives, the jackrabbit digs burrows into the snow drifts. The White-tailed Jackrabbit is a very secretive creature. It only goes out of its home at night. This jackrabbit likes to eat plants like grass, twigs, roots and especially lettuce from a farmer's garden.
Female jackrabbits have their babies in the early summer.
There are about four babies in each litter. Baby rabbits, called leverets, are born with lots of hair. They can open their eyes and even run as soon as they are born. The mother jackrabbit feeds the leverets milk until they are five or six weeks old. By then the babies are old enough to eat plants.