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 ...

Hares seem to exist just to be a food source. Many times, they are white before snow falls, and when that happens, they become white targets in the black spruce and willow thickets.

It’s long been known that snowshoe hare numbers in North American forests rise and fall dramatically in a predictable 10-year cycle. A year or two later, Canada lynx populations follow the same ...

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 ...

Colorado biologists are speculating that a natural up-and-down cycle in snowshoe-hare population may be a key factor in the lack of lynx kitten births the past two years.The Colorado.

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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.

What do lynx, flying squirrels, ravens, and wolverines have in common? They will all scavenge from snowshoe hare carcasses under the right conditions, according to ecologists. And they're not ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...