Biography of the animal hare

Type: chorda chords external signs hares - medium -sized animals with much longer rear than front, legs, long ears and short tail. The coat is thick and soft, but in summer and winter different in color. Unlike other mammals, the representatives of the Zaits -shaped detachment have a kind of arrangement of the upper incisors. Like rodents, they have two large front -shaped tooths, followed by two additional front tooths of a smaller size, which other animals do not have.

On the ground, they are mainly focused on ear, since vision and sense of smell are developed worse. The molting takes place twice a year - in the fall and spring. Hare-Rusak: The largest representative of the Zaitsev clan. Body length 55-68 cm, tail length 10 cm, ear length 10-12 cm, mass 4-6.5 kg. The tail is the same length as the back paw, with a black spot on the tip.

If the ear is tilted forward, then it will go beyond the tip of the muzzle. The external edges of the ears are characterized by a black-brown edging. The wool is red-gray in the summer, with a white belly, in the winter of the sides and the hind legs also brighten, and the color of the back does not change much. Bellyak hare: body length cm, tail length 8 cm, ear length cm, weight kg. The tail is much shorter than the hind paw, in the summer gray-white, in winter completely white, without dark spots.

If the ear is tilted forward, then it barely reaches the tip of the muzzle. A white strip around the edge of the ears. The wool is reddish-brown in the summer, in the winter it is completely white, only the tips of the ears are black. Photo - S. Berzin Hare -Belak. Photo - natural trails of a ligating habitat both species of hares live mostly saddle, that is, they do not change the habitat.

Hare-Rusak: cultural landscapes, meadows, fields, forest edges, groves. In large forests, it is rare. Belyak hare: in broad-leaved and mixed forests with thick undergrowth, along the edges of the moss swamps, and rarely occurs in the meadows and open places. Life hares are active all year round, most often they feed at dusk and at night. Usually live one by one, but during the period of mating several hares together are found.

A frightened hare can run at a speed of up to 50 km per hour, confusing traces. The breeding of hares can have two or even three litters per year. Depending on the weather, the first race can take place in February, and the first hare are born in March. During the rut, several males are fighting for one female. At this time, hares are also active in the afternoon.

There may be rabbits in the litter, but usually the rabbits are well developed, covered with thick fur, sighted.

Mother leaves the rabbes alone shortly after birth and comes once or twice a day to feed them with her milk. This behavior attracts less predators. In the wild, the hare can live up to 13 years. Photo - B. Vitola food hares eat very diverse food of plant origin. In summer, these are mainly various herbaceous plants, mainly cereals, clover and plants of the Cross -Belongs Capes.

In winter, especially when deep snow, feed on thin twigs and trees bark. The Belak hare is better than the hare-Rusaka assimilates rude feed. Signs in nature by the hare-Rusak: the trace of the hind paw cm long and cm wide, the front paw trace is 6 cm long and 3.5 cm wide. Since the hind legs of the hare are much longer than the front, their traces in the run go ahead of the front.

Excrements are rounded, slightly sleeping, about 1.2 cm in diameter. Traces of the front and hind legs of the hare-rusak. Illustration-LNMP Hare-Belyak: the length of the tracks of the hind legs is 12-16 cm, width 7-12 cm, the length of the traces of the front paws up to 10 cm, width up to 10 cm. Traces of the hare-white man are wider than that of the hare, because the paws are hairy.

Excrements are rounded, slightly flattened, about 1.2 cm in diameter. Traces of the front and rear paws of the beeler hare.