The whole truth about hares (8 photos) Bashny.Net

Everyone thinks that rabbits, or even as their children called bunnies - cute fluffy creatures that leap themselves carelessly in the meadows, eating grass, afraid of fainting, but because everyone tries to hurt them.

It's just a kid, we had seen the cartoons, like "Well, wait a minute!" And others. In fact, it is not so. Firstly, rabbits - rather aggressive, being angry and restless, which can easily stand up for themselves. For example, no self-respecting hunter will live rabbit by the ears, although they seemed even intended to do so.




And why? Because the hare easily resort to ploys in inexperienced hands, and so crashed into the mountain hunters with their powerful hind legs that rips his stomach down to the gut, which, of course, very sad ending for "senior management in the food chain." A similar method is used rabbits in a brutal fight against predators and you would not believe, quite often win.

Rabbits eat grass. Yes, I have a weakness long-eared. But with the same success in the case of rabbits are ready to bite raw meat, so call them herbivores is not quite correct, too soon - poluhischnikami. Northern hunters are well aware, so try to check their snares for ptarmigan before they will get to the bloodthirsty rabbits. Because if you do not get ahead of the long-eared - partridge will be eaten. Moreover, rabbit got into the habit and more checking before the snare of the hunter with the same result, so that the latter urgently need to change deployment.



By the way, scientists for a long time officially dignify all rabbits rodents to learn more about their bad habits, isolated former rodents in a separate detachment of lagomorphs, rightly thinking that these predators before they do nedotyagivayut.

With proper education hare can easily replace a guard dog. You do not laugh, but there is documented evidence that a hare, brought up in the dog "team" really was on duty, he rushed to strangers and other dogs, and biting them at various sensitive places.



King of beasts in miniature

In the rabbit, by the way, has something in common with the lion. As the king of beasts, our hero strictly observes its own territory, it does not let outsiders, but he will not go to other people's subsistence plots.

A slanting hare called not because he had problems with his vision. His eyes are in order, you can envy. Nicknamed "slash" this beast got over that, running, doing laps and almost always returned to the same place from which to start. But this is not a trick or stupidity. Just a rabbit right front and rear legs more developed than the left (and sometimes vice versa, there are rabbits left-handed).

Incidentally, a person has the same feature. If you, for example, go and flee through the woods "by eye" without using a compass and a device GPS, and will move as you feel all the time straight and never deviating, then, after some time, too, will come to the place where you started your way.

Hunters know this feature birds and shamelessly exploit it. Letting dogs on the trail of the skew, the hunter is just waiting in the same place where frightened prey. Sooner or later, the hare he returned to it.



Oppressors

Hunters are many rabbits, but no more than the animals themselves, but because they are not threatened extermination. Long-eared long been thoroughly colonized (except for some areas) the entire planet, and now in the world safely live and breed 45 species of birds and 15 species of rabbits.

And the rabbits are so hardy and prolific, it took an entire continent - Australia. Some are not very visionary immigrant brought with him a dozen rabbits for divorce, then to hunt them, and obviously overdone. Now Australia's rabbits clearly more than all the inhabitants together, if not more, than all the other animals.

For the release into the wild rabbits of either sex are threatened with a large fine, and in any case do not try to go to Australia with a live rabbit. You still deployed at customs back to life close the visa, and even nazhaluyutsya your Government that, say what you're bad, because obviously deliberately trying to violate the fundamental law of the Green continent - no rabbits!



So what's the difference?

It is appropriate to tell what different hares and the difference between the hare and the rabbit.

Primarily differ rabbits ears. For example, Siberian hunters distinguish hare hare on pre-voano straightforward way: folded ears caught the hare forward to the nose. If the ears do not reach the muzzle, this hare. If the animal's ears free to hold out to the tip of the nose, or even a little longer, then we hare.

To distinguish from the hare rabbit easiest birth. Rabbits are born blind and naked, the first days of their lives, they are absolutely helpless and bezvylazno sit in your own nest. Rabbits, on the contrary, are born with their eyes wide open and within a few minutes after birth are ready to "tear the claws."

Another difference arises from the fact that rabbits are more or less sedentary, gather in groups and gains in ground burrows, which themselves and dig. Hares also - tumbleweed, family life do not favor, and under every bush they ready and the table and the house.

Characterized by different kinds of hares and rabbits ways of movement and speed. Rabbit - a runner is relatively useless. Its top speed - a little more than 50 kilometers per hour. And then, even after a relatively short distance, he quickly runs out of steam, and therefore prefer not to run away from his pursuers, and hide in a hole or at least under a bush. Hares also -This sprinters, they are able to accelerate to a speed of 80 kilometers per hour, and the height of the jump up to 3, 5 meters. In addition, rabbits good and know how to swim very well move on rocky terrain.



Rarity

We are told that the birds in the nature Nemer, but among them there are exceptions - quite rare species.

For example, the so-called woody, climbing or a hare found only on two small Japanese islands: Anami-Oshima and Toku-no-Oshima. From the name of the breed it is clear that this is not an amazing bunny worn across the fields like his relatives, and jumping on the trees. In the last century, researchers have estimated that in the wild these unique birds left about 500 individuals. What is today their numbers - is unknown.

In America, because of violation of ecological balance gradually die water rabbits. Representatives of this breed, unlike their counterparts, prefer to settle along the banks of rivers and swampy waters. Fleeing persecution, water hare whitefish to the nearest body of water and is bright rows on the other side. If necessary, a water rabbit is able to dive on the water, and, sticking out his nose alone, sit there for a long time.



Water Bunny

Now water hares are extremely rare, and therefore are listed as endangered. But most rare beast - a Sumatran or striped rabbit. It has a characteristic color - the gray top traced several brown stripes. A broad band goes along the ridge from snout to tail. Others - from the shoulders to the hips, and the third is from the thighs to the rear legs. Striped Bunny lives (or lived) in the south-west of the island of Sumatra. According to unconfirmed reports, there are now Sumatran rabbits in nature only two dozen.