The Common Klorr

      The Common Klorr, in some areas of its range known by a literal translation of its Latin species name "the Fetid Swamp Rabbit," is endemic to the swamps of the South Eastern United States: particularly the bayou of Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as the Okefenokee swamp of the Florida Georgia borderlands.  An occasional delicacy for the transplanted Acadians of Nova Scotia & New Brunswick, who may serve it as either "grenouille géante" or "lapin de l'eau," usually in a spicy gumbo dish.  The Common Klorr is omnivorous, hunting large water invertebrates (crayfish, dragonfly larvae, etc.), amphibians and small fish as well as supplementing its diet with water plants and riverbank tubers.  Highly territorial, the Common Klorr maintains multiple underground dens within its territory, often stealing the den sites of river otters, alligators, muskrats and even beaver lodges rather than digging its own into the banks of streams, ponds and lagoons. Indeed, having evolved to fulfill a very similar ecological niche as the River Otter, a Common Klorr's territory and that of a River Otter family invariably do not overlap.  

      A powerful swimmer, the Common Klorr has adapted the hopping locomotion of its distant terrestrial relatives, to its largely aquatic existence.  Endowed with a truly phenomenal immune system, and high physiological tolerance for stress, the Swamp Rabbit has been known to live up to 48 years in ideal conditions; however, rather shorter life spans are far more normal.  Even with a reasonably high mortality rate due to natural and human predation, the Common Klorr is classified as being one of the  Lowest Risk species within the broad category of Pseudo-Para Biology: this is likely due to their prodigious reproduction, with typically three litters of anywhere from two to ten kits each per year.  One area where the Common Klorr has not fared well is in the Florida Everglades where introduced exotic constrictors have all but wiped it out.