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.
Not exact matches
Removing their white winter coat once kept
snowshoe hares hidden
in spring, but as the snows melt earlier, they are increasingly exposed.
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.