The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland

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Generally nocturnal and shy in nature, hares change their behaviour in the spring, when they can be seen in broad daylight chasing one another around in fields. During this spring frenzy, they sometimes strike one another with their paws ("boxing"). This is usually not competition between males, but a female hitting a male, either to show she is not yet ready to mate or to test his determination. The female nests in a depression on the surface of the ground rather than in a burrow and the young are active as soon as they are born. Litters may consist of three or four young and a female can bear three litters a year, with hares living for up to twelve years. The breeding season lasts from January to August. Wilson, C. (2015). Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study. Princeton University Press. p.204. ISBN 978-1-4008-7957-1. Hoffman, R.S.; Smith, A.T. (2005). "Genus Lepus". In Wilson, D.E.; Reeder, D.M (eds.). Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3rded.). Johns Hopkins University Press. pp.195–205. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494. Protein: 33g of protein can be found in 100g meat, fulfilling 66% of daily requirement for an average human body. Hares are fast, agile and intelligent creatures. For this reason hare hunting was once the most widespread form of hunting with hounds, though practiced largely on foot at the time, because stag hunting was reserved exclusively for aristocracy and royalty. This was overtaken by fox hunting due to various factors including field enclosures and a greater desire for mounted hunting. Nonetheless, hare hunting persisted and continues until today. Hunting the hare

In Italy agrodolce sauce is used to make the stew, which is a sweet tasting sauce made with wine, raisin and pine nuts, sugar, vinegar and bitter chocolate.There are other difficulties; rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus has been recorded in hares, and more commonly, poaching haunts the species. Hare coursing is a terrible business on all levels. Apart from the cruelty to hares, it causes distress to rural communities and is often linked with wider rural crime. The hare – always listening, always watching – is sadly wise to maintain what one a Victorian writer called a “passion of fear”, but it is time to give something new to the hare: a land where it can relax, at least from overt fear of us. Palacios, F. (1989). "Biometric and morphologic features of the species of the genus Lepus in Spain". Mammalia. 53 (2): 227–264. doi: 10.1515/mamm.1989.53.2.227. S2CID 84763076.

Footprints: Their footprints are distinctive by the position of their feet. Their long hind feet are parallel and the fore feet are often between them, depending on speed of travel. Width 2.5cm, length 3.5cm. a b Stott, P. (2008). "Comparisons of digestive function between the European hare ( Lepus europaeus) and the European rabbit ( Oryctolagus cuniculus): Mastication, gut passage, and digestibility". Mammalian Biology – Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde. 73 (4): 276–286. doi: 10.1016/j.mambio.2007.07.002. Learn more about this elusive and fascinating species in our expert hare guide, including the types of species of hare found in the UK, habitat, breeding and the best places to see them in the wild. What species of hare are found in the UK? Beagling is banned by the Hunting Act. Should a hunt get caught with its pants down, the most common excuses it will use are trail hunting or rabbit hunting. Unlike the rabbit, the hare is solitary and does not dig burrows, but instead it lives entirely above ground. During the day it rests and sleeps in a form, which it makes by scraping out a shallow depression in the ground, just fitting its body when crouching low. The form may be against a hedge, in short grass, scrub or a ploughed furrow. When lying in its form with ears laid flat, a hare is well-camouflaged.There are about 40 species of hares in the world. They are divided into three different genera: Lepus, Caprolagus, and Pronolagus. Below are 32 types of hares: Vaughan, Nancy, et al. Habitat associations of European hares Lepus europaeus in England and Wales: implications for farmland management Journal of Applied Ecology 40.1 (2003): 163-175. [4] Avril, A.; Letty, J.; Léonard, Y.; Pérouxb, R.; Guitton, J.-S. & Pontier, D. (2011). "Natal dispersal of European hare in a high-density population" (PDF). Mammalian Biology – Zeitschrift für Säugetierkunde. 76 (2): 148–156. doi: 10.1016/j.mambio.2010.07.001. Flux, J.E.C. (1987). "Myths and mad March hares". Nature. 325 (6106): 737–738. Bibcode: 1987Natur.325..737F. doi: 10.1038/325737a0. PMID 3821863. S2CID 4280664. This video by Severn Vale Hunt Saboteurs and this one from East Kent Sabs provide visual examples of what sabbing hare hunts looks like.