Hares and rabbits belong to the same class of zaytseobrazny and have much in common in the physiological building. However and not so it is not enough differences between them as it seems. Moreover, they are not even crossed among themselves.
It is required to you
- hare, rabbit
Instruction
1. If you have to compare directly two adult individuals who are obviously not belonging to one look put them nearby and attentively examine. The hare, as a rule, is larger than a rabbit, the average length of his body about 60 cm while length of a rabbit - about 40 cm. At a hare longer ears and paws, especially back. On the run the hare can shower hind legs for front, and the rabbit so is not able.
2. If you have an opportunity long time to watch an individual, see to coloring. Rabbits in the winter and in the summer in one color, during a molt they do not change a color. Hares darken in the summer, brighten in the winter, process of their molt is physiologically connected with change of color.
3. Having come across a hole of which the big-eared muzzle (hare or rabbit looks out?) - be sure that it is a rabbit. Wild hares do not build holes and do not grow up in them posterity. And here wild rabbits are norny animals, from here and differences in the structure of a body.
4. Having seen the pregnant woman not a doe hare, not a doe-rabbit, pay attention to season. Doe hares bring into the world cubs from the middle of spring to the middle of fall while doe-rabbits - all the year round. At doe hares the term of pregnancy is 45 days, and at a doe-rabbit - is one and a half times less, only a month.
5. It is also easy to distinguish absolutely little cubs from each other. Newborn naked and blind, first two weeks of the krolchat mother brings up them the milk. The doe hare leaves the children almost at once, leverets are born created, fluffy, able to see and can independently eat a grass.
6. If you decided to tame a wild rabbit, but failed, then you, most likely, contacted a hare. Rabbits are tamed much easier than the last.