How to pronounce“jackrabbits”in English

To start us off, we have the lanky, long-eared jackrabbits, which are actually not rabbits.

Eventually, researchers realized that jackrabbits are true hares, which ended up being an important distinction.

Their name supposedly comes from settlers who said they looked like rabbits with donkey ears – so, a “jackass-rabbit.” But jackrabbits and true rabbits are more like cousins.