The Amami Rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi; Amami: Ê”osagi), or Amami no Kuro Usagi (奄美ã®é»’å…”/アマミノクãƒã‚¦ã‚µã‚®), also known as the Ryukyu Rabbit, is a primitive dark-furred rabbit which is only found in Amami Oshima and Toku-no-Shima, two small islands between southern KyÅ«shÅ« and Okinawa in Kagoshima Prefecture (but actually closer to Okinawa) in Japan. Often called a living fossil, the Amami Rabbit is a living remnant of ancient rabbits that once lived on the Asian mainland, where they died out, remaining only on the two small islands where they survive today.