The Easter bunny could also be an eastern cottontail. Found in Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba, these rabbits prefer the edges ...
The large hind feet, long ears, short tail, and typical rabbit shape distinguish this snowshoe hare, the only "rabbit" throughout much of the Adirondack Park. From mid-December until late April, the ...
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Some hares even sport different outfits as the seasons change. In the summer, the snowshoe hare’s brown coat camouflages well with its home in the boreal forest. As winter sets in and the snow ...
An international scientific team led by UM Associate Professor Jeffrey Good and graduate student Matthew Jones set out to discover how snowshoe hares have evolved to molt to a white coat in areas ...
Field experiments by Charles J. Krebs and colleagues have experimentally teased apart the influence of food abundance and predation on snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) populations in Canada.
The signs are everywhere, from the range of snowshoe hares moving north to patchy snow cover that doesn't last as long to new subdivisions cropping up in rural areas. That means falconers are ...