Mountain hares are built for snow. That may be a problem.

A hare blends into a snowbank in Scotland’s Monadhliath Mountains. The United Kingdom’s only native lagomorph trades its mouse brown summer coat for a pale winter pelage each year.

2024-04-15    

This is the domain of the mountain hare. These little mammals are also found in tundra, alpine, and boreal regions across Eurasia. An estimated 99 percent of mountain hares in the United Kingdom live in Scotland, their heartland the rugged Grampian Mountains of the northeast.

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