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Lepus timidus (Mountain Hare)

Synonyms: Lepus hibernicus; Lepus lutescens; Lepus othus tschuktschorum; Lepus timidus tschuktschorum; Lepus variabilis

Wikipedia Abstract

The mountain hare (Lepus timidus), also known as blue hare, tundra hare, variable hare, white hare, snow hare, alpine hare and Irish hare, is a hare that is largely adapted to polar and mountainous habitats.
View Wikipedia Record: Lepus timidus

Infraspecies

Lepus timidus ainu
Lepus timidus begitschevi
Lepus timidus gichiganus
Lepus timidus hibernicus
Lepus timidus kamtschaticus
Lepus timidus kolymensis
Lepus timidus kozhevnikovi
Lepus timidus lugubris
Lepus timidus mordeni
Lepus timidus orii
Lepus timidus scoticus
Lepus timidus sibiricorum
Lepus timidus sylvaticus
Lepus timidus timidus
Lepus timidus transbaicalicus
Lepus timidus varronis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
16
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.06
EDGE Score: 1.8
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  9.204 lbs (4.175 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  108 grams
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Female Maturity [1]  8 months 26 days
Gestation [1]  50 days
Litter Size [1]  2
Litters / Year [1]  2
Maximum Longevity [1]  18 years
Nocturnal [3]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [4]  22 inches (56 cm)
Weaning [1]  23 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Japan Japan No
Mediterranean Basin Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey No
Mountains of Central Asia Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan No

Predators

Accipiter gentilis (Northern Goshawk)[5]
Aquila chrysaetos (Golden Eagle)[6]
Martes zibellina (Sable)[7]
Vulpes lagopus (Arctic Fox)[8]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Golden Eagles on the Swedish mountain tundra – diet and breeding success in relation to prey fluctuations, Jesper Nyström, Johan Ekenstedt, Anders Angerbjörn, Linda Thulin, Peter Hellström & Love Dalén, Ornis Fennica 83:145–152. 2006
♦ 7Martes zibellina (Carnivora: Mustelidae), VLADIMIR G. MONAKHOV, MAMMALIAN SPECIES 43(876):75–86 (2011)
♦ 8Predator–prey relationships: arctic foxes and lemmings, Anders Angerbjorn, Magnus Tannerfeldt and Sam Erlinge, Journal of Animal Ecology, Volume 68, Issue 1, Pages 34-49
♦ 9International Flea Database
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0