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snowshoe hare
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snowshoe hare
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A medium-sized hare (Lepus americanus) of northern North America, having large, heavily furred feet and fur that is white in winter and brown in summer. Also called snowshoe rabbit, varying hare.
snowshoe hare, rabbit
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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a N North American hare, Lepus americanus, having brown fur in summer, white fur in winter, and heavily furred feet
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Noun1.snowshoe hare - large large-footed North American haresnowshoe hare - large large-footed North American hare; white in winter
Lepus americanus, snowshoe rabbit, varying hare
hare - swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes
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Byline: George Barnes AMHERST - The wind chills are below zero, snow coats the ground, and little more than a few snowshoe hares can be seen out and about.
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Snowshoe hares, adult and juvenile, were killed by lynx, coyotes (Canis latrans), goshawks (Accipiter gentilis), great-horned owls (Bubo virginianus), small raptors, and small mammals, particularly red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) and ground squirrels (Krebs et al.
The importance of large carnivores to healthy ecosystems by Miller, Brian; Dugelby, Barb; Foreman, Dave; del Rio, Carlos Martinez; Noss, Reed; Phillips, Mike; R / Endangered Species Update
In the late 1990s, studies manipulating populations revealed that predators control some famous cycles: lynx for snowshoe hares, predatory beetles for bark beetles, and perhaps parasites for red grouse.
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