The large hind feet, long ears, short tail, and typical rabbit shape distinguish this snowshoe hare, the only "rabbit" throughout much of the Adirondack Park. From mid-December until late April, the ...
Where snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) roam, Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) are expected to follow. Simulations suggest that this correlation sets up a cyclical population wave, but little is ...
An international scientific team led by UM Associate Professor Jeffrey Good and graduate student Matthew Jones set out to discover how snowshoe hares have evolved to molt to a white coat in areas ...
Field experiments by Charles J. Krebs and colleagues have experimentally teased apart the influence of food abundance and predation on snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus) populations in Canada.
Canadian lynx prey on small mammals like voles and squirrels but their favourite meal is a snowshoe hare. Boreal forests are some of the world’s last remaining tracts of wilderness, home to a ...