Hares were given ritual burials alongside humans ... The idea that the witches of winter should be banished at Easter is a common European folk motif, appearing in several festivities and rituals.

NBC’s The Americas Partnerships Are Here To Help In the Yukon forests where the snowshoe hare dwells, winter temperatures can reach 30 degrees below freezing or more. The days get so short and ...

The snowshoe hare requires 300g (10.6 oz) of browse per day, and uses the two pairs of upper incisors to cleanly sever the twigs, buds, and bark of woody vegetation during the winter. It prefers small ...

Goshawks naturally hunt snowshoe hares, and Doolittle has seen firsthand on his homestead how these small mammals that change from brown to snowy white in the winter are disappearing from his area.

Rosamund had waited two years to pursue her ambition to photograph mountain hares in the Cairngorms in Scotland, ‘so beautiful in their winter coats and showing such remarkable resilience’. After ...

(Pantheon via AP) This image released by Pantheon Books shows “Raising Hare” by Chloe Dalton. (Pantheon via AP) Chloe Dalton was taking a winter walk near her farmhouse when she encountered it: a tiny ...

GREENLEAF, Wis. (AP) — Stephanie Stevens has a good reason to love the bone-numbing cold of a Wisconsin winter. Every weekend, she loads up her minivan with a large green box and drives out to rural ...

Chloe Dalton was taking a winter walk near her farmhouse when she encountered it: a tiny baby hare — known as a leveret — lying huddled and alone in the middle of a narrow country lane. A ...