Winter can be a difficult time for rabbits like these Eastern Cottontails. With their preferred food sources unavailable, they forage farther and expose themselves to greater danger. Rabbits are a favorite prey species of many predators, such as hawks, owls, and foxes, and their life expectancy in the wild is short.
(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Aluminum, the Magic Metal," August 1978, National Geographic magazine)
