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 ...

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 ...

at the onset of winter. Krebs and colleagues followed snowshoe hare populations on the nine plots over a course of eight years, through one population cycle in which the population peaked and ...

An international scientific team led by UM Associate Professor Jeffrey Good and graduate student Matthew Jones set out to discover how snowshoe hares ... with prolonged winter snow cover while ...

The official mascot for the second Winter Olympics was a snowman that wore a Tyrolean hat from the Innsbruck ... The mascot for the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta was Izzy -- an unusual mascot ...

The aptly named snowshoe hare has especially large ... to match its habitat at this time of year. But as winter approaches, and the snow starts to fall, it transforms from brown to purest white.

For falconers who hunt small animals like rabbits and grouse with wild birds of prey, changing Midwest winters are also changing the sport they love.