Sentence examples for the mountain hare from inspiring English sources

The mountain hare and the ptarmigan, a grouse, take on white coats for winter.

The mountain hare (L. timidus) of Asia, the Arctic hare (L. arcticus), and the snowshoe hare live in the far north.

One unusual mammal you may be lucky enough to see is the mountain hare, which is unmistakeable in the winter months when its coat turns white.

While the Irish hare differs markedly from its closest relative, the mountain hare, by inhabiting lowland areas, it betrays a genetic similarity by developing white patches in winter.

From 1954 to 1999 the mountain hare population on moorland sites decreased by nearly 5% every year, which ecologists attributed to the planting of conifer forests on former grouse moors.

The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and the charity found that between 1954 and 1999, the mountain hare population on moorland sites decreased by almost 5percentnt every year.

Andy Howard spent more than five hours with this mountain hare, which appears to raise its paw to say hello in the Cairngorms, Scotland.

Gamekeepers and estate managers claim the unregulated mountain hare culls limit the spread of ticks, protect trees and safeguard fragile environments, and a policy of voluntary restraint is in place.

Spot brown hares at Wicken Fen in Cambridgeshire and at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire; in the Peak District and Snowdonia you might glimpse the rarer mountain hare.

Phylogenetic analysis shows that the divergent Danish haplotype is most closely related to the Swedish mountain hare.

The results show the presence of mountain hare mtDNA in Danish brown hare populations.