Hares are a bit larger than rabbits, and they typically have taller hind legs and longer ears. Snowshoe hares have especially large, furry feet that help them to move atop snow in the winter.

Imagine a world where the very ground beneath your feet dictates your chances of survival. For the snowshoe hare and the ...

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 ...

Chances are, it’s one of the country's native hare or rabbit species. Let's investigate. In Canada, the Easter bunny could be a snowshoe hare, one of our most common forest mammals. Snowshoe ...

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 ...

Every few years, snowshoe hare numbers in the Canadian Yukon climb to a peak. As hare populations increase, so do those of their predators: lynx and coyotes. Then the hare population plummets and ...

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 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 ...