As New England warms, snowshoe hares are increasingly finding themselves the wrong color for camouflaging with their ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine a world where the very ground beneath your feet dictates your chances of survival. For the snowshoe hare and the cottontail, this is not just imagination—it’s reality. These fascinating ...

They also have a snow-white winter coat that turns brown when ... mothers and can survive on their own in a month or less. Snowshoe hare populations fluctuate cyclically about once a decade ...

On a recent warm spring day in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, wildlife biologist Alexej Siren found something exciting: snowshoe hare tracks in a fleeting patch of snow. “We have these ...