{"id":20045,"date":"2017-04-12T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20045"},"modified":"2017-04-12T07:00:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:00:20","slug":"hares-hair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=20045","title":{"rendered":"Hare’s hair"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Seasonal bunny<\/strong>: This hare showed insensitivity to mythology by neither laying nor hiding eggs.<\/p>\n

A hare’s hair moults.<\/p>\n

Our local snowshoe hare (we don’t have rabbits around here) is white in winter and rusty brown in summer.<\/p>\n

The transition between white and brown is determined by day length, rather than snow cover, so sometimes there is a mismatch with surroundings that makes a hare vulnerable to predation. Indeed, it can live or die when its coat does, or does not, provide adequate camouflage.<\/p>\n

This was the first time I had seen a hare midway in its moult from white to rusty brown.
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  Seasonal bunny: This hare showed insensitivity to mythology by neither laying nor hiding eggs. A hare’s hair moults. Our local snowshoe hare (we don’t have rabbits around here) is white in winter and rusty brown in summer. The transition … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mammals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20045"}],"version-history":[{"count":65,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20111,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20045\/revisions\/20111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}