This adaptation enables travel over deep snows although activity declines temporarily after heavy falls of fluffy snow. With the hindfeet splayed and the front feet close together, a snowshoe hare can ...

After several hours lying on the ground, Rosamund captured this hare as it scrabbled for food beneath the snow, conveying a sense of the animal’s determination in adversity. During winter, mountain ...

In the summer, the snowshoe hare’s brown coat camouflages well with its home in the boreal forest. As winter sets in and the snow falls, they grow a new coat of white to match the snowy ...

A hare was caught on camera running in the snow with a herd of deer in an East Yorkshire field. Jase Broadhead captured the scene at about 07:00 GMT on Sunday in Airmyn near Goole. Mr Broadhead ...

Though snowy owls will eat voles, arctic hares and smaller birds, a study by the Owl Research Institute showed that out of 43,000 prey animals collected at snowy owl breeding sites, 90 percent ...