On the bugs bunny cartoon, "Mississippi Hare" where bugs is on a ship in the 1800's, bugs is shown to have a cotton tail, so this must means that he is a cotton tail rabbit. (a slave is picking cotton and then picks the tail of bugs bunny). Near the ending if the episode, bugs is dressed as a woman and a southern gentlemen is very tempted by this. Then, when bugs turns away from the southern gentlemen, his dress rips, the southern gentlemen looks up bugs' backside and he see's just a normal jackrabbit tail! How could they miss that?!