our master is lamp one of the most popular animals. Numerous fairy-tales and say, but also much insult and saying testifies from it.
Shape Describing the shape of the hare actually is idle since it is everyone familiar. Nevertheless, it frequently is confused with its smaller cousin, the game-rabbit. The field-hare possesses the longer ears or "spoon" as they are called in the hunt-language. Furthermore, it is high-more legged and with 50-76 cm and 2,5-8 kg also clearly longer and heavier than the game-rabbit. its "flower", that approximately 10 cm long tail, is almost black above and on the underside knows. This "lamp" is set up a clearly visible signal for the Artgenossen.
Reproduction During the combination-time, the hare-men, the "buck", have among each other vehement rival-fights. they betrommeln itself with its front-runs and sprays the opponent with urine - a defense-means, that is put in also against enemies.
Boy tosses the doe four times per year. it usually brings four, frequently however also few, hairy boy already with opened eyes to the world. The young-hares are "placed" in the "Sasse", a flat hollow, and are suckled. Here, they are much more strongly exposed to the rigors of the weather as the blind and bare boys of the rabbits, who come to the world in Erdbauten.
Doe still remain fertilization-capable also in the fundamental condition, a phenomenon, for which we call Superfötation. they can therefore be simultaneous with two throws pregnant. Already after two weeks, the next throw can come to the world, this means for the first-borns that they must become preferably largely independent in this time. The Tragzeit lasts 42 days.
Way of life Hares are loners, quite different than the sociable rabbits, with whom they usually live in enmity. At territorial fights between hare and rabbits, it almost always is the hare, who pulls the shorter.
Field-hares are not so distinctive Kulturfolger like the game-rabbits. they live in particularly the edge-zones between the forest and the open landscape. they use the same ways (changes) gladly again and again.
Hare-cunning If you go to its Sasse an old found out hare, so it can execute odd, but quite effective ploys on that occasion: it walks by at its roost in wide distance at first in order to then suddenly jump off sideways and, to walk back. With a huge sentence - hares can jump over 2 m far! - then land in its sleep-hollow it. A robber, who follows the track, then walks by at the location of the hare also at first and must recover the track at the jump-place once at first. Meanwhile, however, master usually already is lamp warned and can try with a good lead to escape from its persecutor.
Escape-behavior The hare always looks for its salvation with threatening danger in the escape. it can run over 50 km per hour fast. Ground-robbers like fox or wolf have heavily following the hook-beating, zigzag-running refugee. If a robber almost reached it, so the hare suddenly alters its direction, and the persecutor runs in the void. It was described that hares durchschwimmen at the escape brooks or even bigger water-runs. To even ground-beating robbery-birds, as hawk and eagles, it doesn't come easily to carry off adult hares.
Food The hares active predominantly in the twilight live from young instincts, different herbs, seeds and bark. On fields and occasionally also in remote gardens, they do themselves amicably at cabbage and turnips. Parsley is regarded as a quite particular delicacy.
Endangering Also the continuances of the field-hare are retrograde in wide sharing of its spread-area, in some areas, it is to be only found very rarely.
Cape-hare (Lepus capensis)) A near relative of our field-hare is the cape-hare, who is on South Africa's cape-province limited in no way, but its spread of east, and North-Africa, Arabia, front, and central-Asia as far as to Eastern Asia is enough. it populates also mountainous regions different than our field-hare until in 4000 m of height. The cape-hare prefers open terrain and populated steppes, savannas and even desert-areas.
The cape-hare is somewhat smaller than the field-hare, and its ears are somewhat longer. In its way of life, however, it doesn't differ from the field-hare.
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