1. The brown hare is Britain’s fastest land mammal, clocking speeds of up to 40mph. 2. There are about 700,000 hares in the UK — they are especially prolific in East Anglia, but sparser in the West ...

Potential life span is 8 years, but few adults survive more than 2-5 years. Brocke, R.H. 1975. Preliminary guidelines for managing snowshoe hare habitat in the Adirondacks. Trans. N.E. Fish and Wildl.

‘Look at me!’ said the Hare to the other animals. ‘Just look how fast I can run.’ The Hare ran across a field as fast as he could. All the animals agreed that yes the Hare was very fas ...

These include planting more conifers and evergreens, conducting timber harvests so hares can take advantage of the dense cover that comes with the regenerating forests, managing edge habitat to ...

Some rabbits and hares are habitat specialists, unable to live anywhere but in their native environment, which makes them very sensitive to habitat loss and climate change. For example ...

Combining GPS and habitat data and using state-of-the-art ... have enough young conifer trees in the understory to support hares,” said Dr. John Squires, the study's principal investigator ...