Snowshoe hare numbers rise and fall dramatically in a regular cycle of eight to 10 years. A year or two later, Canada lynx numbers follow. This enduring relationship is borne out by Indigenous ...

What exactly a warming climate will mean for lynx depends in large part on how its primary prey, the snowshoe hare, is affected. The fates of lynx and hares are so tightly entwined that the peaks and ...

Lynx, fox, coyote, and even some birds of prey hunt this wary hare. Reproduction. ... Snowshoe hare populations fluctuate cyclically about once a decade—possibly because of disease.

The snowshoe hare requires 300g (10.6 oz) of browse per day, and uses the two pairs of upper incisors to cleanly sever the twigs, buds, and bark of woody vegetation during the winter. It prefers small ...

Where snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) roam, Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis) are expected to follow. Simulations suggest that this correlation sets up a cyclical population wave, but little is ...

Tom Hanks takes us inside the life and death drama of snowshoe hares and the Canada lynx. The Americas Explained: Snowshoe Hares, Masters of the Frozen Forest in the Yukon Skip to main content ...

A snowshoe hare near Trepassey on the Southern Shore. (Submitted by Cliff Doran) Most of us are well aware of the seven-to-11-year population cycle of the snowshoe hare in Newfoundland.

“Lynx management and snowshoe hare habitat are synonymous,” Partyka said. “Ninety-two percent of lynx food base comes from the hare. What the management direction did, ...

Lynx will eat squirrels and other small forest creatures when they can get them, but their principal diet is the snowshoe hare. The wildcats go where the rabbits go, and their populations rise and ...

Over the five years of our study in the Yukon’s Kluane region, we collected over 14,000 hours of audio recordings from 26 individual lynx. After using various methods of data processing, we were ...

LONG POND – It was the coldest day of winter in 2018, but it was also the opening day of the five-day Pennsylvania snowshoe hare season. So even the single digits and wind chill could not dis… ...