Prickly Breakfast

A black-tailed jackrabbit eats from a buckhorn cholla at the Brown's Ranch Trailhead in McDowell Sonoran Preserve

A black-tailed jackrabbit eats from a buckhorn cholla, one of the types of cactus commonly seen in the Sonoran Desert.

2 comments

  1. It’s amazing what they eat, they get most of their water from what they eat so they’ve adapted to eat a wide variety of plants, but it’s understandable why they switch to the soft green plants that spring up after the summer rains as soon as they become available.

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