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Most are fast runners with long, powerful hind legs, and large ears that dissipate body heat. [1] Hare species are native to Africa, Eurasia and North America. A hare less than one year old is called a "leveret". A group of hares is called a "husk", a "down", or a "drove".
Maras breed, at least in southern Argentina, from August to January. Gestation lasts 100 days in wild. [8] Most births in Patagonia occur between September and October, which is before the summer dry season and after the winter rains. [8] Females produce one litter each year in the wild, [8] but can produce as many as four litters a year in ...
North America and South America Size range : 21 cm (8 in) long, plus 1 cm (0.4 in) tail (Tres Marias cottontail) to 55 cm (22 in) long plus 8 cm (3 in) tail (Swamp rabbit) [ 23 ] Habitats : Desert, inland wetlands, intertidal marine, forest, shrubland, rocky areas, savanna, and grassland [ 24 ]
The white-tailed jackrabbit is a large species of hare and is the largest species called "jackrabbit". (Two larger hares, the Arctic and Alaskan hares, are found further north in North America). This jackrabbit has an adult length of 56 to 65 cm (22 to 26 in), including a tail measuring 6.6 to 10.2 cm (2.6 to 4.0 in), and a weight between 2.5 ...
Like other jackrabbits, the black-tailed jackrabbit has distinctive long ears, and the long powerful rear legs characteristic of hares.Reaching a length about 2 ft (61 cm), and a weight from 3 to 6 lb (1.4 to 2.7 kg), the black-tailed jackrabbit is the third-largest North American jackrabbit, after the antelope jackrabbit and the white-tailed jackrabbit.
It shares the genus Lepus (Latin for "hare" [3]) with 32 other hare and jackrabbit species, [4] [5] jackrabbits being the name given to some species of hare native to North America. They are distinguished from other leporids (hares and rabbits) by their longer legs and wider nostrils. [ 6 ]
South America's considerable cervid diversity belies their relatively recent arrival. The presence of camelids in South America but not North America today is ironic, given that they have a 45-million-year-long history in the latter continent (where they originated), and only a 3-million-year history in the former. Family: Tayassuidae (peccaries)
The scrub hare (Lepus saxatilis) is one of two species of hares found in southern Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Although it is listed as a least concern species, the population has been declining and is expected to decline by 20% over the next 100 years.