brown hare - just a big animal.Its mass is about four to five kilograms.Sometimes there are also some individuals of seven kilograms.The biggest hare found in the northern areas of their habitat.The smallest specimens are common in the Caspian and Caucasus.
It should be noted that the hare and the hare are markedly different from each other.Thus, the second much larger than the first.
European hare has a summer color brownish or yellowish-gray or pure gray.On wool visible dark streaks.In winter, in individuals living in the southern region, the color does not change.Hare, who lives in the north, much lighter.This back and head remain dark.Wool animal brilliant, characterized by large undulations, it makes more visible the dark ripples.The tail is somewhat elongated, colored in black or dark brown in all seasons.Ears hare long act (in flexion) of the tip of the nose.The outer edge of fringed black stripe.The animal has long legs, but relatively narrow feet.Sexual dimorphism in coloration is not shown.
brown hare in the forest zone occurs mainly in the fields.In rare cases, it settles on the meadows, forest edges, bushland and extensive logging.The animal often seen near human settlements, especially in the winter.Favorable conditions for the habitat of the animal are those places where small copses alternate with farmland and shrubs with a developed network of ravines.
animal activity mostly at night and in the twilight hours.In the north, however, one can observe birds, feeding and during the daytime.
summer maturation of an animal is a small hole.The animal digs it under the cover of a bush a short distance from the feeding area.This shelter hare can be used several times.It should be noted that shelters located mainly in accordance with the weather and the seasons.In the spring of maturation animal suits often warmed on the ground.In the summer, on the contrary - in cooler.In rainy weather, hare trying to stay on the drier uplands, in the absence of rain, on the contrary - in the lowlands.In winter, the maturation of the animal suits on the leeward side of a shelter.In winter, as the autumn, rabbits may lie in stacks on the outskirts of the village, at the buildings.
On maturation from a place of feeding the animals are moved, confusing the traces and making brooms, loops and sdvoyki.When the hare makes gumption, then he tries to jump over a mound or in the bush, his trail was invisible.
feeds on animal food plant.This uses different kinds of herbs.This wild plants, which include dandelion, bird knotweed, tansy, chicory, clover, winter cress, alfalfa and others.It feeds on the hare and cultivated plants.These include cereals, sunflower, buckwheat.In the north area animal can eat the bark and twigs of trees and shrubs.However, as a rule, it is noted in the bad years, when the herbaceous plants are closed a lot of snow.
earlier than a year rabbits reach sexual maturity.Terms of reproduction dependent on climatic and geographical conditions.
Twice a year the animals shed.In various parts of the environment moulting varies.Spring in most of the accounts for the period from March to May.Most intensively animals molt in April.In September, the autumn molt begins.At an early lowering of the temperature, it is faster and ends in November.In warm weather - could be delayed until December.The direction of the spring molt - the back of the head from the torso.The direction of the fall, on the contrary, to the head.
