New England Cottontails Perhaps Adapt to Hats on Elementary's Details

Summary: A consulting detective on Elementary's Details Feb. 14, 2013, perhaps angles New England cottontails out of hats to arrive at astute crime-solving.

New England cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis) shortly after release by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists into southern coastal Maine's Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), via U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region

New England cottontails advance to first or second place as animals perhaps appearing out of hats to achieve almost magical crime-solving on Elementary procedural drama television series episode Details Feb. 14, 2013.

Elementary director Sanaa Hamri and writers Robert Doherty, Jeffrey Paul King and Jason Tracey briefly broach crime-solving as magical business in the first season's 16th episode. A drive-by shooter crosses Detective Marcus Bell's (Jon Michael Hill) path between 10:00 and 10:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (3:00 and 3:30 a.m. Universal Coordinated Time). Curtis Bradshaw (Anwan Glover) displays a four-year dislike for Detective Bell, drives a blue 1968 Chevy Biscayne like in drive-by descriptions and dies the following night.

Eleventh Precinct Police Captain Tommy Gregson (Aidan Quinn) endures media efforts to elaborate a "'killer cops' angle" of police executing Bradshaw for endeavoring to eliminate Bell.

Captain Gregson flares up at Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller), "If you're thinking about pulling a rabbit out of the hat, get to it, would you?"

Chin and groin gland-generated scents and low-pitched growls, grunts and purrs versus foot-thumping and high-pitched squeals guide New England cottontails toward versus from breeding, feeding get-togethers. Breeding seasons maximally between January and September herald nest-building 72 hours before delivery of three to four three- to eight-member yearly litters nursed five minutes daily. New England cottontails, identified by Outram Bangs (Jan. 12, 1863-Sept. 22, 1932), inhabit 3.94- to 5.91-inch- (100- to 150-millimeter-) dimensioned fur- and grass-capped and lined nests.

New England cottontails journey through three- to 12-year lifespans as 27- to 30-day embryos, 2.91-inch (73.8-millimeter) newborns, sighted four-day-olds, weaned 16-day-olds and black-washed, black-eyespotted, gray-cheeked juveniles.

Pink- to red-buff New England cottontails know as mature dental formulas two-incisor, three-premolar and three-molar upper and one-incisor, two-premolar and three-molar lower left and right jaws.

Physically and sexually mature one-plus-year-old male New England cottontails log 26.67- to 34.04-ounce (756- to 965-gram) weights and 15.19- to 16.34-inch (386- to 415-millimeter) head-body lengths. They manifest 3.51- to 3.82-inch (89- to 97-millimeter) long legs for hopping, jumping, leaping, running and swimming and 0.87- to 2.24-inch- (22- to 57-millimeter-) long tails. Physically and sexually mature one-plus-year-old female New England cottontails net 28.29- to 36.61-ounce (802- to 1,038-gram) weights and 15.24- to 16.93-inch (387- to 430-millimeter) head-body lengths.

Physically and sexually mature one-plus-year-old female New England cottontails obtain 3.42- to 3.78-inch (87- to 96-millimeter) leg and 1.18- to 2.56-inch (30- to 65-millimeter) tail lengths.

New England cottontails prefer cold-weather bark, needles and twigs and warm-weather clovers, fruits, grasses, seeds and succulents within 0.25- to 25.95-acre (0.1- to 10.5-hectare) home ranges.

New England cottontails qualify as bobcat (Lynx rufus), coyote (Canis latrans), raptor (Falconiformes) and weasel (Mustela) prey and as eastern cottontail and whitetail (Odocoileus virginianus) rivals. They require blueberry (Vaccinium), mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) and rhododendrons reigning over dense thickets, regenerating forests, scrubby fields, shrubby wetlands and tangled brush under 25 years old. The Leporidae (from Latin lepus, "hare" and Greek -ειδής, "resemblance") family member survives natively in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island.

Absent versus present black-fringed front-ear edges and jagged versus smooth-lined frontonasal skull sutures tell whether eastern (Sylvilagus floridanus) or New England cottontails trek through Sherlock's hat.

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Captain Thomas "Tommy" Gregson (Aidan Quinn) are concerned about carefully proving Detective Marcus Bell's innocence as a prime suspect in the murder of a recently paroled drug lord in CBS Elementary's Details (season 1 episode 16): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook Feb. 15, 2013

Acknowledgment

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New England cottontail (Sylvilagus transitionalis) shortly after release by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologists into southern coastal Maine's Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), via U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Northeast Region @ https://usfwsnortheast.wordpress.com/2014/01/03/harvesting-homes-for-wildlife-at-rachel-carson-national-wildlife-refuge/

Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Captain Thomas "Tommy" Gregson (Aidan Quinn) are concerned about carefully proving Detective Marcus Bell's innocence as a prime suspect in the murder of a recently paroled drug lord in CBS Elementary's Details (season 1 episode 16): Elementary @CBSElementary, via Facebook Feb. 15, 2013, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663/223854461073006

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