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They are primarily a northern species that inhabits boreal forests and can also range as far north as the shores of the Arctic Ocean. Along North American mountain ranges, where elevation simulates ...

Bunny booms and bunny busts have deeper roots than bunny lusts. When dark spots obscure the sun, the clock runs out on bunny fun. The snowshoe hare of northern Canada and Alaska offers a lesson in ...

Snowshoe hares arrived on tiny Hay Island, at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy, in 1959, traveling by boat from Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, Canada, with Wesley Ingalls and his nephew, Junior. The ...

Your fluffy pet bunny's cousin is actually a carnivore—and a cannibal, new photographs reveal for the first time. During summer months, the mammals feed on vegetation, but when snow blankets the ...

Snowshoe hare numbers rise and fall dramatically in a regular cycle of eight to 10 years. A year or two later, Canada lynx numbers follow. This enduring relationship is borne out by Indigenous ...

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 larger hind ...

DULUTH -- Isle Royale’s recently bolstered wolf population is doing just fine at finding moose, beaver and snowshoe hares to eat. That was the report last week from National Park Service and State ...

Snowshoe hares and moose, which are both relative newcomers to Alaska's North Slope, may have become established in the area with the help of warming temperatures and thicker vegetation. Snowshoe ...

It’s 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 and loss of habitat over ...

Nathaniel T. Wheelwright (2016), Eradication of an ecosystem engineer. Front Ecol Environ, 14: 53–54. doi:10.1002/fee.1221 (open access). Snowshoe hares arrived on tiny Hay Island, at the mouth of the ...