summer (51% of diet) than in winter (99% of diet). Other shrubs in the area were consumed infrequently. Grass and forb consumption was relatively constant throughout the summer (39% and 10% of diet respectively) and decreased to a trace amount through fall and winter. Thickspike wheatgrass, bluebunch wheatgrass (Pseudoroegneria spicata), and Sandberg bluegrass were preferred foods in the summer. Predators Weasels (Mustela and Neogale spp.) are the principal predators of pygmy rabbits. Coyotes (Canis latrans), red foxes (Vulpes vulpes), American badgers (Taxidea taxus), bobcats (Lynx rufus), great horned owls (Bubo virginianus) and northern harriers (Circus hudsonius) also prey on pygmy rabbits. Listing status On September 26, 2007, Judge Edward Lodge of the United States District Court for the District of Idaho granted litigant party Western Watersheds Project summary judgment remanding the United States Fish and Wildlife Service 90-day finding denying conservationist parties' listing petition. The petition sought legal protection for pygmy rabbit as an endangered or threatened species. References External links Leporidae Rabbit, Pygmy Rabbit, Pygmy Mammals described in 1891 ESA endangered species Taxa named by Clinton Hart Merriam Endemic fauna of the United States