They can be hard to tell apart — even for an experienced hunter like Elmer Fudd. There is much debate on the internet about whether that wascally wabbit Bugs Bunny is actually a hare. But let's not go ...

Snowshoe hares' densely furred hind feet give them excellent buoyancy in soft, deep snow. And there's more.

Snowshoe hares enjoy a winter coat of white, providing them with excellent camouflage in the snow. Hunters can find them by looking for the hare’s telltale dark eyes and ears. (The Minnesota ...

Poor snowshoe hares. Every other creature in the forest wants to eat them. As NPR reports, “lynx, foxes, coyotes, raptors, birds of prey” — even red squirrels, which eat the babies — are ...

The lifespan of a snowshoe hare averages between 1 to 2 years, but some have been reported to live up to 5. Snowshoe hares are herbivores and nocturnal, meaning that they only feed at night, and their ...

Over the years I had opportunities to observe snowshoe hares while working with students at the Environmental Learning Center first at Isabella, Minn., and the last three decades at Wolf Ridge ...

Hares breed like rabbits so they can pass on their genes quickly. But climate change is fast, too. Will snowshoe hares adapt quickly enough as subsequent winters get warmer and produce less snowfall?

Cottontail rabbits and snowshoe hares Minnesota is home to two varieties of the small mammal we simply refer to as rabbits. In Duluth we are in the midst of the overlapping ranges of those two ...

Snowshoe hares live or die by their coat color—turning brown in the growing season and white in the winter. But the timing of the snow is changing faster than some hares can keep up.

Photograph by Robert Harding, World Imagery/Corbis Can Snowshoe Hares Evolve to Cope With Climate Change? The color-changing North American animals may adapt by staying brown for longer periods.

As New England warms, snowshoe hares are increasingly finding themselves the wrong color for camouflaging with their environment. New England scientists are looking at some promising ways to help.

The hares' most important survival tool is camouflage, he said. The typical wild hare sheds its brown coat and changes to white in winter to blend in with the snow.