Animalia > Chordata > Mammalia > Lagomorpha > Leporidae > Lepus > Lepus oiostolus

Lepus oiostolus (Woolly Hare)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

The woolly hare (Lepus oiostolus) is a species of mammal in the family Leporidae. It is found in Bhutan, China, Northern Pakistan, India and Nepal.
View Wikipedia Record: Lepus oiostolus

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
4
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
23
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 8.69
EDGE Score: 2.27
Learn more at EDGE of Existence programme

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  5.443 lbs (2.469 kg)
Diet [2]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [2]  100 %
Forages - Ground [2]  100 %
Litter Size [1]  3
Litters / Year [1]  2
Nocturnal [2]  Yes
Snout to Vent Length [1]  19 inches (47 cm)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Bitahai Nature Reserve V 49655 Yunnan, China  
Mount Everest (Sagarmatha) National Park II 275416 Nepal
Qiangtang Nature Reserve 73637404 China      
Sanjiangyuan Nature Reserve 37634150 Qinghai, China      
Wolong Nature Reserve V 826140 Sichuan, China  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Himalaya Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan No
Mountains of Central Asia Afghanistan, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan No
Mountains of Southwest China China, Myanmar No

Predators

Bubo bubo hemachalanus[3]
Vulpes ferrilata (Tibetan Sand Fox)[4]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Coptopsylla lamellifer ardua[5]
Echinococcus multilocularis[6]
Euchoplopsyllus glacialis profugus[5]
Pulex irritans (human flea)[5]

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ 3SUMMER DIET OF TWO SYMPATRIC SPECIES OF RAPTORS UPLAND BUZZARD (BUTEO HEMILASIUS) AND EURASIAN EAGLE OWL (BUBO BUBO) IN ALPINE MEADOW: PROBLEM OF COEXISTENCE, Qinghu CUI, Jianping SU, Zhigang JIANG, POLISH JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY, Vol 56, 1 pp. 173–179 (2008)
♦ 45.6 Tibetan fox, Vulpes ferrilata, G.B. Schaller and J.R Ginsberg, Sillero-Zubiri, C., Hoffmann, M. and Macdonald, D.W. (eds). 2004. Canids: Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and Dogs. Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN/SSC Canid Specialist Group. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. x + 430 pp.
♦ 5International Flea Database
♦ 6Gibson, 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