Sentences with phrase «snowshoe hare»

After more than a decade of studying snowshoe hares in the Rocky Mountains, L. Scott Mills, a wildlife biologist at the University of Montana, Missoula, noticed that the animals were beginning to stick out more than usual.

Mills» group previously found that winter white snowshoe hares confronting snowless ground have higher mortality rates that could drive massive population declines as snow duration continues to decrease.

Removing their white winter coat once kept snowshoe hares hidden in spring, but as the snows melt earlier, they are increasingly exposed.

This image shows brown and white snowshoe hares on bare ground at a University of Montana research facility.

The Canadian system is dominated by the extreme cold tolerant tall shrubs and the 10 - year snowshoe hare and Canadian lynx cycle

We have a male Red Beagle that was bred for hunting Snowshoe Hares.

The news is equally dismal for the beautiful snowshoe hare.

More than 200 lynx from Alaska and Canada have been released in Colorado since 1999, but because the population of snowshoes hares — the cats» main food source — has diminished over time, biologists have found no kittens in the past two years.

Old, faded snow scenes, such as that featuring the Canada lynx and snowshoe hare, had once been created out of medical grade cotton topped with glitter.

Snowshoe hares and red squirrels use culverts much less than do weasels and martens — perhaps because so many hungry weasels and martens are passing through: A dark alley makes a great shortcut until you get mugged in it.

For Wisconsin's snowshoe hares, climate change now ranks as an even bigger menace than the bulldozing, paving and other destructive things people have done to northern forests.

Snowshoe hares» main form of defense against predators is camouflage, and they change their coat each season to better blend in — white for snowy winters and brown for summer.

UW researchers report that the range of the snowshoe hare in Wisconsin is creeping north by about five and a half miles per decade.

As a changing climate leads to reduced snow cover in the winter, certain species like the snowshoe hare will be negatively impacted due to coat - color mismatch and consequently increased predation.

Beagles are often used to flush game to guns, including game birds, wild board, foxes, bobcat, red deer, cottontail rabbits, snowshoe hare, coyote and roe deer.

Other mammals include caribou, red fox, wolf, lynx, wolverine, river otter, mink, marten, weasel, porcupine, snowshoe hare, red squirrel, and beaver.

After Eggman's defeat, you could then open a device that was full of captive birds and snowshoe hares.

Caught in white outfits in a brown landscape, snowshoe hares are feeling conspicuous to predators in low - snow landscapes caused by El Niño.

The snowshoe hare is another small example of how changing weather is impacting the environment.

Global warming is turning a trait that was once a survival strategy into a disadvantage for the snowshoe hare.

How can the snowshoe hare and Arctic fox thrive in a climate - changed world, where there's less snow to blend in with?

Snowshoe hares, all of them with vibrant white fur, «were hopping about on fallen leaves that had no snow covering,» he wrote.