What is the difference between a rabbit and a hare?

Question

What is the difference between a rabbit and a hare?

Answer 1

Like cows, hares chew their cud, rabbits don't.

Answer 2

What's the difference between a rabbit and a hare? When rabbits and hares are adults you can tell between by their physical appearance, rabbits are smaller but hares have shorter legs and ears. While they're babies hares are born with open eyes, fur, and can hop shortly after birth. Rabbits on the other hand are blind and have no fur. It takes about a week for them to open their eyes and another before they have fur and start hopping.

Rabbits and hares are found everywhere but Antarctica and the southeast islands of Asia. Rabbits were brought to some countries such as Australia which didn't have them until recently.Hares and rabbits are found living in all types of land and weather in North America. Hares can live in very cold weather, very hot weather, or even in very high weather. Rabbits you can find everywhere even a park.All rabbits living in North America are Cotton tails while there's a variety of hares. Such as the Arctic Hare, the snowshoe, and the Jackrabbit, which is a hare not a rabbit. The hare is a nomadic species meaning it moves around constantly and doesn't have a stable home. . . They live in large underground cities called warrens. In this position they look like a small rock. Although both rabbits and hares are friendly towards their own kind, they are not friendly towards each other and you will rarely find rabbits and hares together in the wild. They have a few survival tricks in handy. Arctic Hares need up to half a kilogram(a pound) of food per day. Rabbits, Jackrabbits and Snowshoe Hares will usually live alone. In Europe the rabbits build burrows. Rabbits will live up to a year or two if lucky and hares 3 or more years. Rabbits and hares have an extra pair of smaller, very sharp front teeth just behind the big ones and this makes them different from other animals. When it appears that there is no escape, the rabbit or hare explodes from its crouch leaping from a standing start. Rabbits and hares are herbivores, they don't eat meat. They are more active at night where they look for food because it is safer for them at night. Rabbits are very fun animals but when it's in need for their life. If the danger still comes newar, they flatten their body even further.

Answer 3

This is a very good question because most people often confuse rabbits and hares, but they are very different in several ways. Hares are generally larger, and have longer hind legs and longer ears than rabbits. When hares are born, they have a full coat of fur and their eyes are open. Their mothers either drop them on the bare ground at birth or into a slight depression in the ground. A young hare is called a leveret.

Rabbits, on the other hand, are more compact. Their young, called bunnies, are born hairless and blind. The mother rabbit lines a nest with grass, bark and soft stems. Over this, she places a layer of hair that she plucks from her own body. When she leaves the nest, she covers the bunnies with more hair and dead plants to keep them warm and hidden from enemies.

Rabbits and hares both molt and then grow new hair. This happens in both the spring and in the fall. Rabbits' brown summer fur is replaced with fur that is greyer. Hares, especially those living in cold, snowy regions, turn white in the winter.

Rabbits and hares are more active during the dark hours from dawn to dusk. Rabbits hide in either burrows or depressions in the ground during daylight hours. They try to keep hidden. Hares hide among plants and usually try to escape enemies by running.

Rabbits are often found together. Male rabbits even fight within a group to become the dominant male. The dominant male rabbit then mates with most of the females in the area. Hares live most of the time by themselves. They come together in pairs for mating only. There is little or no fighting among hares. They just pair off.

Check out the following for more information and links to other bunny sites!

http://www.alienexplorer.com/ecology/m10...

http://www.geobop.com/Mammals/Lagomorpha...

http://www.san-marino.k12.ca.u...mer98/r...

http://www.yahooligans.com/Science_and_N... Rabbits_and_Hares/

Check out these reference entries which describe the characteristics and behavior of the hare,rabbit, and jackrabbit.

http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?...

http://cnet.windsor.ns.ca/Environment/Ad...

Answer 4

This is a very good question because most people often confuse rabbits and hares, but they are very different in several ways. Hares are generally larger, and have longer hind legs and longer ears than rabbits. When hares are born, they have a full coat of fur and their eyes are open. Their mothers either drop them on the bare ground at birth or into a slight depression in the ground. A young hare is called a leveret.

Rabbits, on the other hand, are more compact. Their young, called bunnies, are born hairless and blind. The mother rabbit lines a nest with grass, bark and soft stems. Over this, she places a layer of hair that she plucks from her own body. When she leaves the nest, she covers the bunnies with more hair and dead plants to keep them warm and hidden from enemies.

Rabbits and hares both molt and then grow new hair. This happens in both the spring and in the fall. Rabbits' brown summer fur is replaced with fur that is greyer. Hares, especially those living in cold, snowy regions, turn white in the winter.

Rabbits and hares are more active during the dark hours from dawn to dusk. Rabbits hide in either burrows or depressions in the ground during daylight hours. They try to keep hidden. Hares hide among plants and usually try to escape enemies by running.

Rabbits are often found together. Male rabbits even fight within a group to become the dominant male. The dominant male rabbit then mates with most of the females in the area. Hares live most of the time by themselves. They come together in pairs for mating only. There is little or no fighting among hares. They just pair off. The link below provided the information on rabbits and hares.

http://www.geobop.com/Mammals/Lagomorpha...

http://www.san-marino.k12.ca.u...mer98/r...

http://www.yahooligans.com/Science_and_N... Rabbits_and_Hares/

Answer 5

Rabbits are slightly shorter legged, and are happy living in groups. Rabbits also burrow, and in the wild will live below ground when they are not feeding, and they have their litters below ground.

Hares are solitary creatures unless breeding, and rely on running rather than burrowing for protection. They have very long and strong hind legs, more so than rabbits. They make shallow "scrapes" in which to hide, but generally dig no deeper than a few inches; more often their scrape, or "form", will be no more than a bit of flattened grass. They will have their litters in a scrape, and rely on moving the young leverets from place to place to keep them from being found by predators. Unlike rabbits, hares are born fully furred and with their eyes open, and are able to hop from a few minutes after birth.

Answer 6

hares are larger i think