Animals in Utah are no strangers to winter, and have all adapted to survive or escape it. Here's what to know about how ...
For the past 14 years, my winter ecology students and I have spent a lot of time outdoors, studying the preferred habitat features and winter foods of snowshoe hares. We’re likely to find hare tracks ...
Snowshoe hares are part of the leporidae family and have evolved certain traits to help them survive against their predators. One of these traits is the ability to change its fur color depending on ...
In the biting cold and snow-filled backcountry of the Seeley-Swan Valley, researchers from the University of Montana are looking for what should be nearly invisible. After all, snowshoe hares against ...
From the southernmost tip of Chile to the frigid northern boundaries of Canada and Alaska, The Americas, narrated by Tom ...
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 ...
ROANOKE, W.Va. — West Virginia is the southernmost range of the elusive snowshoe hare, but now the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources wants to figure out just how abundant they are in the ...
In the high country, the brown snowshoe hare turns white in winter. Named for its extra-large, fur-bottomed hind feet, the snowshoe hare can clear 12 feet in a single jump and moves easily in Colorado ...
It’s long been known that snowshoe hare numbers in North American forests rise and fall dramatically in a predictable 10-year cycle. A year or two later, Canada lynx populations follow the same ...