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 ...

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.

The aptly named snowshoe hare has particularly large feet and a winter-white coat. In the summer though, their fur turns brown, taking up to ten weeks to change color completely.

A white snowshoe hare against a brown background makes the animal easy prey. L.S. Mills Research Photo The effects of climate change often happen on a large scale, like drought or a rise in sea level.

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.

Not since the mid-1990s has a customer asked White Lake taxidermist Doug Ellis, 51, to mount a snowshoe hare. "They're beautiful," he said. "But you just don't see them." ...

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.

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 ...

As winter loosens its grip on the northern states and it finally feels like spring, my mind turns to all the changes in nature. In particular, the animals in the northern climates that change the c… ...

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.

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… ...