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While a cottontail being chased by a fox can run a zig-zag pattern at 18 mph, snowshoe hares and black-tailed jackrabbits (a form of hare) have been clocked at 35 mph.
As New England warms, snowshoe hares are increasingly finding themselves the wrong color for camouflaging with their environment. New England scientists are looking at some promising ways to help.
He found a similar pattern in open patches of forest, including clear-cuts: Hares of either color moved more freely, and survived longer, in closed-canopy parts of the forest than in the open.
Your fluffy pet bunny's cousin is actually a carnivore—and a cannibal, new photographs reveal for the first time. Snowshoe hares in Canada ’s Yukon Territory eat meat to supplement their diets ...
Generally speaking, hares are larger than rabbits and have longer ears and legs. They are also faster runners, which makes sense since they live in open spaces, like prairies, and need the speed to ...
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Snowshoe hares rely on camouflage, turning white in the winter to match the snow, and then turning brown for the summer. But a changing climate could mean fewer days with snow on the ground, and ...
Researchers have noticed an exceptional number of white snowshoe hares on brown earth. They contend that climate change and the color mismatch are causing much more hare mortality.
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