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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

a snowshoe hare cowering inside. Matt and Claire — both graduate students at the University of Alaska Fairbanks — sprang to action with practiced efficiency. Claire fit a long, white ...

In Canada, the Easter bunny could be a snowshoe hare, one of our most common forest ... known for seasonal costume changes. They sport a white coat in winter and a brown one in summer to blend ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...