Amami rabbit
Amazing fact
The Amami rabbit raises its young buried in a burrow used for raising young.
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The Amami rabbit raises its young buried in a burrow used for raising young.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Amami rabbit
- Scientific name
- Pentalagus furnessi
- Japanese name
- アマミノクロウサギ
- Group
- Land mammals
- Class
- Mammalia
- Order
- Lagomorpha
- Family
- Leporidae
- Genus
- Pentalagus
This rabbit lives in forests and is found nowhere in the world except Amami Ōshima and Tokunoshima.
Its ears and legs are short, and it uses its strong claws to dig burrows for resting and raising young.
How the Amami rabbit lives
It forages at night and stays in its burrow during the day. It is thought to eat grasses and ferns. It feeds in open areas.
University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web環境省 奄美野生生物保護センターBasic data
- Size
- 397–530 mmUniversity of Michigan Animal Diversity Web
- Weight
- 2,030–2,880 gUniversity of Michigan Animal Diversity Web
- Active
- At night (nocturnal)University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web
- Range
- Amami Oshima and Tokunoshima環境省 奄美野生生物保護センター
- Conservation status in Japan
- Endangered (EN)Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Red List 2020
Where the Amami rabbit has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- アマミノクロウサギ
- 简体中文
- 琉球兔
- 繁體中文
- 琉球兔
- 한국어
- 아마미검은토끼
- Español
- Conejo de Amami
- Deutsch
- Ryukyu-Kaninchen
- Português (Brasil)
- Coelho-de-amami
- Italiano
- Coniglio di Amami
- العربية
- أرنب أمامي
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kelinci amami
- Русский
- Лазающий заяц
- Türkçe
- Amami tavşanı
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 環境省 奄美野生生物保護センター — 奄美群島の動物Checked: 2026-11-03
- University of Michigan Animal Diversity Web — Pentalagus furnessiChecked: 2026-11-03
- Ministry of the Environment of Japan, Red List 2020Checked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
The conservation status in Japan is the category in the Red Lists of the Ministry of the Environment of Japan, which assess the risk of extinction for wild animals in Japan.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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