The Snow Hare

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Winter browse availability depends on height of understory brush and winter snow depth; 6-to-8-foot-tall (1.8 to 2.4m) saplings with narrow stem diameters are required for winter browse in heavy snow. [25] Fieberg, J. & Delgiudice, G. D. What time is it? Choice of time origin and scale in extended proportional hazards models. Ecology 90, 1687–1697 (2009). Hodges, K. E., Krebs, C. J. & Sinclair, A. R. E. Snowshoe hare demography during a cyclic population low. J. Anim. Ecol. 68, 581–594 (1999).

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a b Sinclair, A. R.; Gosline, J. M.; Holdsworth, G.; Krebs, C. J.; Boutin, S.; Smith, J. N.; Boonstra, R.; Dale, M. (1993). "Can the solar cycle and climate synchronize the snowshoe hare cycle in Canada? Evidence from tree rings and ice cores". The American Naturalist. 141 (2): 173–198. doi: 10.1086/285468. hdl: 1807/443. PMID 19426078. S2CID 36401789. The dog’s tail beats on the rug. If Lena’s hypothesis is correct, saliva should begin to leak from his mouth. These emissions should be more plentiful for the familiar-smelling rabbit than for the mole she boiled yesterday. She may send the results to Moscow for the behaviourists to add to their research. Scientific progress depends on collaborative principles. Korpela, K. et al. Nonlinear effects of climate on boreal rodent dynamics: mild winters do not negate high-amplitude cycles. Glob. Change Biol. 19, 697–710 (2013). Thank the blessed Virgin that’s over,’ Ala says when the world’s strongest man has been and gone, and the flaps are raised to daylight. She’s standing and heading for the exit. Krebs, Charles & Myers, Judy (12 July 2014). "The Snowshoe Hare 10-year Cycle – A Cautionary Tale". Ecological Rants. University of British Columbia . Retrieved 7 October 2015.The problem is that everyone else is interesting, but Lena seems oddly disconnected from the world.

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Boutin, S., Gilbert, B. S., Krebs, C. J., Sinclair, A. R. E. & Smith, J. N. M. The role of dispersal in the population dynamics of snowshoe hares. Can. J. Zool. 63, 106–115 (1984).The snowshoe hare is also known as the varying hare because their colors differ depending on the season. The snowshoe hare is the most important small game animal in North America, being a predator for many other species. Lena becomes more focussed on helping her family survive, and she learns to embrace each day, and appreciate the little things. Ala lets go of Lena to unfasten her plaits and shake her hair into a crimped yellow sheet. ‘Maybe my count will have a younger brother. I mean the brother will be poorer, obviously, but he might be a teacher or something. You’d take that for a fortune, wouldn’t you?’ As she lies dying, Lena drifts through time. She sees her girlhood in Lublin, Poland; her early young adulthood as an officer’s wife in the Polish mountains; and the most terrifying time of her life in Siberia as a prisoner of the Soviets. Over and over in Paula Lichtarowicz’s affecting novel, The Snow Hare, Lena confronts the loss of choice as she is taken here and there across Europe, losing and gaining family with each roll of history’s dice. With Lena, we have to wonder whether not free will is an illusion or if we can exert any power over what happens to us...

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Two days later Ulrich rolls the week’s milk churn to their doorstep, shaking his fist at the sky as he goes. This is all born of a storm in the Carpathians, he mutters. It is making his heifers cry. Only storms from the Ukraine do that. Snowshoe fur makes it almost impossible for predators to find it. In the winter the hair matches the snow, in the summer brown fur blends in with the forest floor and bushes. Studd, E. K. et al. Use of acceleration and acoustics to classify behavior, generate time budgets, and evaluate responses to moonlight in free-ranging snowshoe hares. Front. Ecol. Evol. 7, e154 (2019).He’s looking this way,’ Dan whispers, ‘my life on it he is. The officer in the middle; the one with glasses.’ These animals are nimble and fast, which is fortunate, because they are a popular target for many predators. Lynx, fox, coyote, and even some birds of prey hunt this wary hare. Reproduction They blend in well with their surroundings because of their seasonal variation in fur color, from brown in summer to almost pure white in winter. The gradual shedding of the coat and replacement of the guard hairs occurs two times per year and is triggered by changes in day-length. In national parks across interior Alaska, they inhabit spruce forests as well as shrubby habitats in riparian areas. In many areas of the boreal forest, snowshoe hares are the dominant herbivore.