The snowshoe hare requires 300g (10.6 oz) of browse per day, and uses the two pairs of upper incisors to cleanly sever the twigs, buds, and bark of woody vegetation during the winter. It prefers small ...

For the snowshoe hare and the cottontail, this is not just imagination—it’s reality. These fascinating creatures illustrate ...

Snowshoe hares like to nibble on the protein-rich buds of young hardwoods, but especially spruce and fir. These 10- 15-year-old saplings have low, dense boughs that help the hares hide from predators.

A snowshoe hare bounds through the snow. Richard Seeley/Get Wild The snowshoe hare, Lepus americanus, is a classic winter mammal in Summit County, with snowshoe feet ready for snow anytime.

With climate change, one upcoming issue for snowshoe hares is coat mismatch-with increasingly shorter snow seasons snowshoe hares are often turning white before there is any snow on the ground.

The snowshoe hare is one of approximately 20 animals in the world that turn white in the winter, and it’s one that faces some serious concerns here in the Keystone State due to climate change ...

Snowshoe hares are among 21 bird and mammal species in boreal forest that turn white for winter, which scientists call seasonal molting. This study is the first to track how seasonal molting has ...

LONG POND – It was the coldest day of winter in 2018, but it was also the opening day of the five-day Pennsylvania snowshoe hare season. So even the single digits and wind chill could not dis… ...

Snowshoe hare have adapted to their northern climes by changing their pelage (fur) color from brown to white in winter, but sometimes mother nature plays a nasty trick. With a lack of snow they ...

Snowshoe hares are cold-weather dwelling hares that have large back feet and change color from brown to white in the winter. Maine’s legal snowshoe hare hunting season runs from late September ...

The Americas: Snowshoe hares stay on their toes in "The Frozen North". In the Yukon forests where the snowshoe hare dwells, ...

Biologist Alexej Siren shows a set of snowshoe hare tracks in the snow in the White Mountains. The hares have very large paws to help them travel quickly over the snow.