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Monday, November 18. 2013

Bunny Rabbit of the Week: Arctic Hare

Another fine pic from my friend's trip to Churchill. He's quite the photographer, it seems. It isn't really a rabbit, it's a hare.


Arctic Hare info.


Posted by Bird Dog in Natural History and Conservation at 04:51 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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Evolution at work. The bunny is barely distinguishable from its snowy background. Don't think the foxes and wolves approve.
#1 Gringo on 2013-11-18 08:10 (Reply)
Looks delicious.
#2 forest on 2013-11-18 09:16 (Reply)
So if I read the description of a hare correctly, Bugs Bunny isn't a rabbit as he can fairly be described as a hare.

Huh...who knew?
#3 Tom Francis on 2013-11-18 10:50 (Reply)
The road from Fairbanks to Poker Flats was paved with arctic hares. Or at least it was the first winter I was there. Not every state can afford a road paved with fur ;)
#4 chuck on 2013-11-18 12:46 (Reply)
I recall seeing a movie with the arctic hare in Kindergarten. I remember it because I was so impressed with the change in hair color to match the change in season.
#5 feeblemind on 2013-11-18 13:24 (Reply)
No. That was the Snowshoe Hare.
#5.1 Bird Dog on 2013-11-18 13:57 (Reply)
I was going to make a horrible joke about Hare Krishna and decided not to.
#5.1.1 Tom Francis on 2013-11-18 17:02 (Reply)
"The arctic hare looks a lot different from the rabbits and hares that you see anywhere outside of the Arctic. In the summertime the arctic hare is brown with black flecks. This helps to camouflage it during the growing season. When the weather starts to change the arctic hare starts to change too. So that during the winter its coat is completely white. This change helps to protect it during the winter."

http://library.thinkquest.org/3500/arctic_hare.html
#5.1.2 feeblemind on 2013-11-18 17:39 (Reply)
There's a breed of house rabbit that's similar in appearance to that hare, with all white fur and black "eye liner". It's called a hotote. My wife had a male hotate for a dozen years. He was the gentlest little creature, quite handsome, with a wonderful disposition. When he was younger, he was a superb athlete, able to jump onto high chairs with no difficulty at all. We loved to watch him race around the house and then suddenly leap into the air, doing a graceful 180 (it's called a binky).
#6 Agent Cooper on 2013-11-19 00:11 (Reply)

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