More than almost any other high-alpine animal, the snow hare, which is white in winter, depends on a thick blanket of fluff.

Arctic hares, with thick white fur for camouflage, eat willow and birch in the tundra, adapting well to their Arctic habitat. Arctic foxes have white fur for camouflage in the snow, turning brown ...

They are Britain's only native hare and may have been here since the Ice Age. But mountain hares are elusive and often hard to spot and even more tricky to count. Now new research from Scottish ...

Evidence, not ideology should be the basis for any future legislation affecting Scotland mountain hare population, a land owners group says. Scottish Land and Estates (SLE) said care should be ...

There are two species of hare in the UK (brown and mountain) but only the brown hare is known in Wales. It's thought that brown hares were introduced to Britain by the Romans. Numbers started to ...

prairie or Arctic habitats. Some hares even sport different outfits as the seasons change. In the summer, the snowshoe hare’s brown coat camouflages well with its home in the boreal forest.