Mountain hares (Lepus timidus hibernicus Bell) are extremely vagile and commute up to 3 km daily within their home ranges. However, observational and mark-recapture evidence suggests that they do not ...

The process of rapid climate change operated cyclically throughout the Pleistocene and this caused repeated local extinctions, range changes and may have promoted vicariant speciation among temperate ...

Researchers have published a comprehensive study on the significance of species differences for the most central cell maintenance mechanisms. The researchers used the brown hare (Lepus europaeus) and ...

A QUARTET of trumpeting whooper swans flying north west over my local brae last week signalled that spring is finally stirring. These birds, having wintered on Irish loughs, shores and flooded fields, ...

Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland, in collaboration with colleagues from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet), have published seven draft ...

A survey of mountain hares has been hailed as a success a year after they were made a protected species. Hillwalkers, bird and mammal surveyors, and other outdoor enthusiasts took part in a national ...

The mountain hare is rarely seen in the wild. It lives in the higher regions of the Alps and is famous for its beautiful white winter coat. Now, however, climate change and winter tourism are ...

A beautiful new book shows why the hare, with its gift for the unexpected, remains an enigma, writes Eileen Battersby A beautiful new book shows why the hare, with its gift for the unexpected, remains ...

Mountain hare numbers on Scottish grouse moors in the Highlands have fallen to less than one per cent of the 1950s level, according to a study that increased pressure on SNP ministers to clamp down on ...

1. The brown hare is Britain’s fastest land mammal, clocking speeds of up to 40mph. 2. There are about 700,000 hares in the UK — they are especially prolific in East Anglia, but sparser in the West ...

Most of us, asked to picture a hare, would visualise a brown one, hurtling Road Runner-like through some lowland meadow or, in that clichéd calendar image, standing on its hind legs, boxing with a ...

Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland and Tampere University have published in the journal Molecular Ecology a comprehensive study on the significance of species differences for the most ...