We know rabbits from their long ears, short tails, very long hind legs and feet, thick and soft fur. But how can we distinguish between the two species of this genus? The island and real rabbit terms we use for classification are not particularly adequate. The rabbits, which we call real rabbits, are the ones who live in Europe, who live underground in common provinces, and who give birth to their young naked, blind and helpless. The island rabbit Cubs have their eyes open at birth, their bodies covered in soft fur, and they move as soon as they are born. They open their eyes to the world in nests on Earth. They don't go underground after they grow up. This is one of the main differences between the Island Rabbit and real rabbits. And they're bigger than real rabbits.
But as we said, this classification is wrong after all. There were rabbits that were excluded from both species, such as America's cottontail.
The head and body length of rabbits that give birth to their offspring as they see it and on Earth is 65 centimetres. And he's got big ears. Ear lengths sometimes exceed 17-18 centimeters. The tails of these animals are also relatively long, but they are almost lost in their fur. Extremely long art feet allow the fastest of them to travel at speeds of 70 to 72 km per hour. This type of rabbit is home to Europe, Asia, Africa and North America.
How are island rabbit tracks recognized?
There is no way that rabbit tracks can be confused with other animals. The rabbit, whether it's heavy or full speed, never walks, moves forward. The marks are always the same: two wide marks side by side in front of them, and two smaller ones in the middle behind them.
Rabbits come from a very ancient lineage
Hares with a genealogy of 30 million years old have spread across all the vast lands on the face of the earth. It's amazing they didn't just stay in the southern parts of South America. They're all herbivores. They live on land, some of them live in underground lairs. The life span of rabbits does not exceed 10 or 12 years, including with the condition that the animals are well protected. In particular, few live more than 3-4 years of hares. Cotton tails are as old as three years old.
Great White Island rabbits
It is amazing that the largest of the rabbits, who give birth to their young in fur and vision, can be found in difficult climates. The Polar rabbit or White Rabbit, whose weight sometimes exceeds 4.5 kg and whose length is 60 centimetres, can live comfortably in snow-covered and treeless places surrounding the northern glaciers. The Arctic hare is of a structure suitable for life conditions in the north of the Earth. Its fur is white in winter, like snow, and only the ends of its medium-length ears remain black. To choose him in icy weather, his enemies have to be very sharp-eyed. Even hungry wolves, foxes and snow owls are sometimes fooled. This rabbit changes the color of its fur according to the season. It is brownish or greyish in short summer, when the abdomen is pulled from the tundra. We achieve this change by shedding and renewing their feathers, or it won't change the colour of their feathers.
Island rabbits of America
White-tailed Hare or steppe Hare
The white-tailed rabbit is a slightly smaller animal than the Arctic Rabbit. He is also one of the rabbits who gave birth to their young with fur and vision. He walks around all seasons with a white tail. The rest of its body is yellowish in summer and white in winter, except for the black tips of its large ears.His home is between the slopes of the rock mountains of the United States up to 3000 meters and the region of South West Canada to the north and the southwest of the United States to the south.
The white-tailed rabbit is one of the fastest animals in the plains. It could easily pass to a fox or American coyote. It is normal for him to travel 3.5 metres on a jump. When you want, this distance can also increase to 5 6 meters. The speed of this rabbit is normally 55 to 56 kilometers per hour. When accelerated, it can reach 72 to 73 km.
These rabbits don't dig themselves underground. They often rest in pits on the face of the soil. In the north, they dig a hole in the snow to protect themselves from the great cold of winter. They're not fastidious in terms of food. They feed on everything, provided it's green Yesil.
Enemies Of The Island Rabbit
The white-tailed rabbits are the jumping champions. They can jump at least 160 to 165 inches. But they don't jump this high for joy. Their goal in these jumps is to survey the surrounding terrain and see if there are any enemies nearby.
The Island Rabbit has many enemies. The coyote was once his main enemy. Later, when the farmers declared war on the Coyote and diluted their population, the rabbits became too crowded.
Increase
The rabbits take six weeks to give birth to the female rabbits in a recess of the Earth, designed by her fur beneath a bush or a cluster of herbs.
Newborn island rabbit pups range from 60 to 180 grams. 1 to 8 offspring may be born in one abdomen; the average is four. They are brownish and covered with a speckled oar, and their eyes are open. They start to suck milk from their mother 5 minutes after birth.
When the mother leaves her cubs alone, she covers them with the grass and fur of the nest. He returns to it only in darkness and to suckle the little ones. When the Cubs are a few days old, they appear 3-4 weeks later, they become able to take care of themselves. The female Hare Cubs several times a year.
Island Rabbit Dance
The white-tailed rabbit enjoys the community. There have been those who have seen 10 or 12 of them dance together on the moonlit and mostly warm nights in the middle of winter. There's a reason their actions are called Dancing. First they create a big circle, then they narrow it down, and then they all jump into the air and scatter in four directions. After a few minutes, a new apartment is made and the room is scattered as the figure above.
White-Sided Rabbit
The white-sided Rabbit is perhaps the strangest Island Rabbit on the North American continent.
The ears of this rabbit, the largest part of which is Brown, are white, and these ears do not have black tips like those of the relative rabbits. A whitish shade is also visible on the underside of the body. The weird thing is, the rabbit can change that whiteness by shortening some of the muscles in its skin. In the meantime, for example, he can push aside the brown fur on his back and replace it with white fur, and even running at the last speed does not prevent him from showing this skill.
As the enemy approaches, whiteness is necessarily turned to the side of the attack. While the island rabbit runs in zigzags, the white fur changes its place accordingly. The white side also gives a bright signal that can be seen from far away in bright sunlight, perhaps informing other rabbits that danger is approaching.
The white-sided rabbit's Homeland extends from the southeastern parts of the United States into Mexico.
The binge Rabbit, which is related to this rabbit, has very long legs and enormous ears. He has the longest ears of any real rabbit or rabbit. Black-tailed and gray-tailed rabbits of the same sex always live in the United States. These are all rabbits that give birth to their young in fur and vision.