About hares

27/06/2022

Июнь – традиционный месяц для выхода гигантских шпоровых черепах к летнему вольеру. Африканская пара – Дядя Саша и Матильда — из киевского зоопарка перешли на св....

26/06/2022

Lake Lebedyn (“Swan” Lake) Among the six mountain lakes in Hutsulshchyna National Park, Lake Lebedyn is particularly beautiful and romantic. The lake hides in the tract on the southern slopes of the peak with the same name as the Pokuttia-Bukovyna Carpathians in Kosiv district. The reservoir is 650m above sea level, the area does not exceed a hectare, and the depth, according to the researchers’ assumptions, reaches 28m. Beech forest, meadows and swamps make up the natural landscape of the area around the lake, and on the lakeside area grows a lot of rare plants, including spring primrose, fern and Beech Phegopteris.

24/06/2022

There are about 700,000 hares in the UK — they are especially prolific in East Anglia, but sparser in the West Country and much of Wales; in northern Scotland, the brown hare is replaced by the mountain hare, Lepus timidus.

10/06/2022

During dry periods, hundreds of elephants will descend upon the Musiara marsh – a huge wetland on the doorstep of our Mara camps. During the rains however, there is plentiful food for larger herbivores and elephants are rather seen widely dispersed across the open plains.

10/06/2022

Due to overall wet conditions in the past weeks, the grassy plains of the Masai Mara still appear to be a blanket of green, especially when marvelling the unique landscape from above, from either a plane or one of our hot air balloons.

06/06/2022

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06/06/2022

A group of cats is called a CLOWDER.
A group of wild cats is called a DESTRUCTION.

06/06/2022

Cats developed a special type of meow in order to get their way with humans. The "irresistible" sound is a combo of purring and meowing. The sound frequency is similar to an infant crying, and our brain struggles to ignore it.

30/05/2022

Representatives of the hare family are distributed throughout the planet, except in Australia and Antarctica.