Jackrabbit Tale

I lived for a few years amongst the ocotillo and mesquite and cows tongue cactus of Arizona. About this time of year, in that high desert, the jackrabbits get amorous. Lately, I’ve been thinking about the year Chesty was a pup and Jack and I had one good show after another watching those long-eared hares.

The way sex works with jackrabbits in the spring is that the males fritter away the purple light of late afternoon by leaping at each other in waist-high bounds and jumps in a great show of a...