Their flashes of blue and black color combined with their frantic call makes them the clown of the camp. It was quite a treat watching him, a rolly-polly creature, as soft and rounded as the rocks he scrambled on were hard and angular. The size of a small beaver without a tail. Dr. Kenneth B. Armitage and a number of his students have studied a population in Gothic, Colorado since 1962. Female daughters may not disperse and may settle around their mothers.
Sons invariably disperse as yearlings and try to find and defend one or more females.
Females tend to breed as 2-year olds. Litter sizes average a bit over four pups, of which about half survive their first year. I guess I would chuck, whistle and trill, too, if I had a harem in a sub-alpine meadow. Last week I took a drive during a beautiful fall day in the great central valley of California. Like the Snipe, the Jackalope is shrouded in mystery and contradictory tales.