The arrival of spring brings the arrival of baby animals in Massachusetts. But if you see a young animal, leave it alone.

No! This is a baby cottontail rabbit called a kitten or a kittie. The short, white stripe on its forehead has no apparent significance. Maybe its mother knows. The cottontail rabbit is one of a ...

Do baby bunnies swim? Do they climb? At 3 a.m., my feeble flashlight beam through the window couldn’t detect any movement from the shallow nest, open to the sky, just beneath a scraggly azalea bush.