Hares are small mammals related to rabbits and belonging to the same family (Leporidae). Hares usually live from 4 to 8 years in the wild.
05/01/2021
Hares have an excellent sense of smell, hearing and vision. They have nearly 360° panoramic vision, allowing them to detect predators from all directions. They can see everything behind them and only have a small blind-spot in front of their nose.
A male hare is called a jack, a female is a jill. A hare less than one year old is called a leveret. The collective noun for a group of hares is a “drove”.
Normally shy animals, hares change their behavior in spring, when they can be seen in broad daylight chasing one another around meadows; this appears to be competition between males to attain dominance (and hence more acces to breeding females).
