Things you need to know about BROWN HARES!
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- Brown hares are also known as European hares and are widespread across Europe and some parts of Asia. Surprisingly, despite how widespread they are in Britain, they are not a native species and were introduced at some point during the iron age. Since then they have also been introduced to other countries, including northern Ireland and Australia in the 19th century.
Brown hares are much larger than rabbits, with longer pointed ears that have noticeable black tips to them. They have long powerful legs and a short tail that is white underneath and black on top.
Hares are found in a variety of lowland habitats but are most numerous around open farmland, meadows and along deciduous woodland edges. Unlike rabbits hares do not dig burrows but instead create a depression in the ground where they spend most of the daylight hours. This is known as a form and without the protection of a burrow, can make the hares very vulnerable to predators. To combat this, the hares remain very still and silent, hoping to go un-noticed but if they feel any threat is too great, they can run, really fast. In fact, they are the fastest land mammal in the UK and the 9th fastest on the planet. For short periods they can reach speeds of up to 50 miles per hour.
Hares are most active after dark and in the early morning and late evening when they venture away from their forms in search of food. This includes grains, grasses, cereals and sometimes they will strip bark and vegetation from the low hanging branches of trees. These foods are difficult to digest and if you have seen my video about European rabbits you might be familiar with the term, coprophagy. This is where an animal eats its own faeces in order to re-digest it and Hares are part of this poo eating club.
One of the hares most famous traits is their tendency to stand up on their back legs and box one another. Male hares are called bucks and initially people thought this fighting was between them in the attempt to win the right to mate, but it is most often between a female which is known as a doe and a buck that is being too persistent. Throughout the spring and summer the bucks trail the does around, hoping they we be willing to mate, this can often end up with one doe leading a trail of 3 or four bucks. Once she has picked a mate the doe is pregnant for 41 to 42 days before giving birth to between 2 and 4 young which are known as leverets. These are born with a full coat of fur and with their eyes open. Their mother leaves them in a form close to where they are born and only returns once a night to feed them. This avoids attracting any predators as when the leverets are young they are very vulnerable. Gradually the leverets start to venture further from their forms and after around 4 weeks their mother stops returning to feed them and they are left to fend for themselves. Although this lack of parental care may be a bit surprising from a mammal, it does allow each doe to breed multiple times in a season, sometimes producing as many as 4 litters between February and September.
The biggest predator for young hares is red foxes but aside from hunting by people and idiots with dogs, adult hares in the UK are pretty safe. Because of this their population has stayed pretty steady over the past 25 years and there are somewhere in the region of 580,000 hares in the United kingdom. Their average lifespan is 3 to four years but on rare occasions they can live much longer, the oldest on record making it to 12 and half years of age.
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Someone brought me a newborn hare and I raised him like my baby. He had a congenital disorder, had surgery and couldn't be released because of it. He turned into the most amazing emotional support animal I could ask for. 10 days ago he came to me, jumped in my lap while I was on the couch, laid on my chest, and died. I'm never going to find another creature like him. They're bringing me his ashes next week. Hares are wonderful animals. Very intelligent and have a wide emotional range.
Im sorry for your loss but glad you got to have such an experience with an animal that most people rarely see, never mind get close to.
That's such a sad story. I'm sorry for your loss. Hares are my favorite animal that I grew up alongside when they lived in the fields in Northern Ireland within a stone's throw of where the Titanic was built...
@@davideldred.campingwilder6481 Thank you for your kind words
True about Hare: ua-cam.com/video/xcpbL0zVvCc/v-deo.html
Ohhh, I am so sorry for your loss. However, how special that you had the opportunity to share Bambi 's life with him.💖
My Grandmother used to turn into a Brown Hare and follow me when I went out into the countryside on my own as a child... it was so reassuring to turn around and see her following at a distance. Now as custodian of my own land I watch an abundance of Brown Hares on an almost daily basis, they are powerful, magnificent and magical.
Seek professional help, K? I am sure you will get back to 'normal' soon.
Stay free, K, with a heavy amount of Irony.
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Put down the pipe
Oookkk.. Whatever you say
Don't listen to them Katherine I believe you
I've only ever seen one hare in my 50 years between Chelmsford and Braintree on the A130 in a field. I was surprised just how big it was!
I was surprised by their size too the first time I saw one up close. I think they look even bigger because of how high they stand when they run. Thanks for leaving a comment and have a great weekend.
There's an old saying; "Who shoots a hare carries it home". Anyone who's done this won't be so quick to shoot another !
@@Kevin-mx1vi Depends how long your arms are ...check one of my vids 👍✌✌🇬🇧🇬🇧
Wikipedia about Hare: ua-cam.com/video/-tk2ZTC9dHg/v-deo.html
Lots around our farm on the Shropshire/Cheshire border! Leverets come right up on the patio and don't seem to notice us if we keep still. They love chasing each other round the topiary too.
One of my favourite mammals! Great commentary and brilliant footage. Couldn't believe how much the fur was flying from the two that were boxing!!
Thanks! It was really interesting, I have been scratched by rabbits and guess that hares feet are the same just on longer and stronger legs. I wonder how much they injure each other? Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment and keep an eye out for my next video: Things you need to know about hedgehogs, which will be out shortly :)
@@AShotOfWildlife Yes it does make you wonder!! (Just got notification and marked your hedgehog video to watch later! ) 👍
I saw one a few months ago at Carlton marshs Suffolk. I have also regularly seen hares in an area of country side adjacent to Reedham swing bridge in Norfolk.
You not only got the choice of music down, but the volume too. Well done.
Thanks a lot this was fantastic .Hares are wonderful and your video taught me a couple of things I didn't know . .👍Best Wishes , and have a great week , Helena
Hi Helena. Thanks again for taking the time to leave a comment. I’m really glad you enjoy my videos :)
My fave animal. Beautiful, canny. The shotnof the hare coming towards the camera reminded me of my child hood where I used walk my dog and if I stood still the hares would walk down the track and right up to us. They know they can't be out run.
These hares are great and so cute when they’re babies. I’m very fortunate to live in a rural area in the highlands of Scotland and I’m happy to say we have an abundance of hares. I’ve seen 10-15 in one field. We’re very lucky up here, and the red squirrels are just so handsome I can watch them for hours, I have them in my back garden daily for some nuts. Then at night I get pine martens, badgers, and the odd fox.
Truly I couldn’t ask for anything more, maybe a decent digital service 🤷🏻♂️ but it’s worth it.
You are a fortunate Faux fox. All the best of Auld Scotia.
Stay free. Rab 🍻 😎 💚
Excellent video. I saw two hares this week while walking my dog. One popped out of the hedgerow right in front of us. He was as big as my as my Staffordshire Bull terrier.
Hares are also able to leap around Ten feet, they use this ability to reach their forms in order to cut off their scent trail.
Cheers. I had to remove quite a lot of superstitions and religions as that had became quite a large chunk of the video and I wasnt sure if people would be interested in it. A few have commented to add their own so I should have probably left it in.
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Hare today....gone tomorrow. I see a few on my walks in the fells. Hares are a magical creature and signify some of the mystery of time and season. They were emblems of fertility in older times for obvious reasons.
50 mph, wow! I have seen a couple of hares in a field as I was driving here on the Isle Of Wight. Only once though. Long legs so was obviously not a rabbit.
I stopped one night to drag the body of a fox off of the centre line of the road. No obvious signs of being hit by a car but what amazed me was how big it was. I'd guess over 4 1/2 feet from nose to tail. I left it in the long grass on a verge on a bend. It was gone the next day. I was hoping it was just unconcious and woke up. It was a beautiful animal .
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Fabulous creatures, and I don’t think I have ever seen one in the wild. But an excellent and informative video as always.
Thank you I love taking photo's of the hares near me . Beautiful animals
Over half a million pairs in the UK, yet they're still pretty rare to see. Just shows how good they are at hiding and not being noticed.
Great video. I see hares almost every day on the farm where I live in Suffolk and I never get bored of seeing these beautiful creatures.
I have never seen a hare so was surprised that there are so many, hopefully one day I'll get lucky.
Ha ha, what an intro! Another great video mate.
Cheers Ian. I am waiting for someone to correct me as they are actually bales of straw but Im not sure its possible to tell from the footage. I hope you are keeping well.
I love hares.
always love seeing hares, see a few when out at work and their speed is always amazing.
There is actually a species of Hare in NI that arent found anywhere else, I must go looking for them the next time I am over that way :)
They are so precious to us that we have a patron saint for hares. Santes Melangell... 🏴🏴
Great video
Thanks Preston. Im glad you enjoyed it.
Should come to Walmer Bridge/Bretherton. I sometimes see seven in an hour on bike early morning.
New subscriber! I've already watched your Magpie video and I was impressed so I clicked on this video about Brown Hares and learned a new things I didn't know keep up the good work mate I look forward to watching the rest of your videos.
Cheers! Sorry for the late reply but I hope you have been enjoying my more recent videos as well. The next one will be friday and will contain "things you need to know about carrion crows" which might interest you. Have a great weekend!
@@AShotOfWildlife looking forward to it and yes I've watched most your videos, nearly up to date 😁
Interesting! We are lucky enough to regularly have hares in our garden. Lovely to watch!
Love all your videos I learn so much and find them very relaxing thank you
Glad you mentioned the Idiots with dogs.
I've seen a few Hares on golf courses. Its fun to watch them take off.
Another really good one Liam .... Thank you.
Thank you for this informative and brilliant video Liam! Enjoyed your intro as well haha
Thanks! I really expected someone to correct me (as they were bales of straw not hay) but thus far no-one has. I'm glad you enjoyed the video, keep an eye out for the next one which will be out later today: Things you need to know about Hedgehogs!
Loved the intro !!! Lol !! Great post ! Always keeps me watching to the end !! Learn something new !! Every time !! Brilliant mate👏🏻👍
Cheers mate! I always learn something new whilst making these videos too, if only I could remember everything I say, Id be a real expert!
A lovely video... I am writing some short stories about a pair of hares and was looking for some info.. :)
Cheers. I hope the video was useful. Good luck with your writing!
Beautiful and informative video Liam, thank you
Thank you Marilyn! I appreciate the support :)
Thank you for the nice video.
Brown hares also introduced to Canada too. Surprised you missed that.
Predominantly Ontario.
Nice one Liam, learning loads of stuff, thank you👍🇬🇧
Cheers mate!
We love the Hares here in our Avocado Orchard in Gisborne New Zealand. There are approx 4 breeding pairs at any given time on twenty acres.
Really good enjoyed that 👍
wonderfull liam, beautifull piece how great
very informative . thanks for sharing wit us. #explorePotohar
Cheers
Exactly what I was looking for thanks 🖐️
No worries. If you enjoyed it, you might also like some of the other wildlife fact files I've done so be sure to have a look :)
Thanks.
Cheers
One of my favourite creatures , they have a great charisma and always look solitary in the fields when i see them, hate the scumbags who attack them with dogs.
Thanks for your hard work and research. Interesting channel
Short, sweet and informative
They are so long, I love hares 🥺
Thanks for posting. Hares are wonderful animals. There are many in the fields around Old Warden village.
Cheers!
Brilliant! Thank you . . . . 😎
Cheers!
Interesting video, very informative.
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it!
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Hare’s resting place is named a scrape according to our local and wider references, obviously another variation never heard of that one before.
As an agronomist I regularly come across hares, sometimes almost steeping on them before they decide to run off. They are a most delightful animal to watch.
Good video with great information. Lots of Hares around where I live but the estate does have a big shoot now and again to keep their numbers down. Lovely animal to see and sooo fast.
This was excellent. Really interesting and informative. I see absolutely loads of Rabbits, largely because I live in the countryside but it is very rare that I see Hares which is a real shame as they are such fascinating creatures.
Thanks Liam for the facts about the Hares! Have a nice day! // Bertil.
Thanks Bertil! Have a good week.
Have just walked across a field which I always walk around the perimeter of and there to my amazement was a hare, first thought it was a rabbit but much too big. So still I thought it wasn’t alive but it’s huge eyes were bright and beautiful, I kept walking and luckily my dog was quite a way away and didn’t see him. I could so easily have taken a photo but I didn’t want to upset him. If I hadn’t seen your video I wouldn’t have known . So thank you so much and I am thrilled beyond thrilled.
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Good morning!
I lived in Melbourne for a year. I am a cyclist so was often on bike paths just slightly off the beaten track. There were dozens and dozens of them so there must be many, many thousands around Victoria.
The strange thing was that no Australian I spoke to had ever seen one. And every time a I rode I would see them. They would even penetrate very built up suburbs at dusk. They were definitely hares, much too big and leggy for a rabbit, black ear tips etc.
Maybe the British took them there for hunting.
Lots around Canberra too. They used to be around the lake below Wentworth avenue and the used to cross Wentworth ave at the bus stop markets to the park. But that is all developed now so they have moved slightly away from there.
Cool video mate! You should do the Adder next!
Thanks! Adders are on my list but unfortunately I havent got any footage of them yet (although I have made several dedicated trips to try to find them!). The next video is Hedgehogs, which should be out by the time you read this comment :)
Great stuff Liam. Well chosen footage and music, and love the intro and the phrase "poo-eating club" 😆. Keep up the good output my friend! 👍🙂👍
Thank you sir Graham. I never thought I would be saying the words "poo-eating club" in one of my videos but couldn't think of an alternative lol.
I love that part where you "or idiots with dogs." 😂
That intro had me groaning, so funny 😅
Haha, sorry about that. It's not even Hay.
I like hares and rabbits
Thank you. Your succinct videos are great for me, as I have a very short attention span! Didn't realise they had such a short lives. Sadly, I see the little ones fall victim to cars where I live.
Cheers. Stay tuned as I have lots more lined up and coming out soon.
Its a shame about the roadkill :/
brilliant
Thanks!
I've seen them in a grain/rice storage in Cambridge, late at night had in my headlights driving slow through the plant
Many years ago, I recall my Dobermann and a hare, eyeing one another, across the concrete reinforced banks of a small river. Thirty or so years prior to that, I saw a hare running so quickly when I was walking across a large grassy area just short of the old harbour at Pembrey, West Wales, that our family's Alsatian didn't even see it go.
"idiots with dogs", well said
I was out walking on an evening walk in the countryside when I had the unfortunate sight of a dead hare on the side of the road not long dead with the looks of it, it was the first time I've seen one up close and what struck me was its amazing piercing eyes, it's just a shame I had to come across one like this
Good vid my guy, liked the intro lol
Cheers! Beginning of lockdown I had a full head of hair. I’m currently growing it just to see how much comes back but it isn’t looking good!
I can confirm these things are rapid! Saw one this morning sat in the road as I came round the corner and it accelerated from 0 to at least 35 in a second before darting off into a field entrance
Apparently, Hares can also eat meat. And have even been known to cannibalise. A study recently has shown Hares not only eating meat, but defending the carcass for itself. This behaivor is likely to happen in protein defeciant areas, along with the norm that they eat.
Saw a pair of huge ones up by Hadrians wall about a week ago. There's aways that moment where to have to look twice to be sure it's not a young deer or a dog.
They are blummin huge things.
If you ever worry you might not know the difference between a hare and a rabbit. You can't really mistake them. They are much bigger an move in a totally different way.
While driving a bus in the 80s I clipped a hare one night, I stopped and went back to see if it was dead, it was lying behind the bus and sadly seemed dead , a police car pulled up and asked what had happened, after telling him he went to the boot of his car and came back with an aerosol can and sprayed it on the poor beast, it jumped up an ran off at high speed, I asked him what the hell it was ? Hare restorer he said.
Oh dear!
"idiots with dogs" ... Way to polite fella lol
Yes, I didn’t want to cause any drama to be honest lol
@@AShotOfWildlife don't blame you. Great video 👍🏻
Thanks.
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Thanks for your video. We do have brown Hares in Australia, but they are quite rare. I have probably only seen about 10 in 63 years. Put rabbits that's a different matter.
When I was a boy we would have Hare stew with carrots 🥕 and potatoes 🥔 😋 it was wonderful especially after 3 days in the fridge 🙏
Hare's are Animals that live above the ground unlike a Rabbit
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نهارك سعيد أتمنى كل يوم سعيد
Some years ago I was walking home late at night.I could hear this noise behind me turning around expecting the worse it was a hare running to the fields.He didn't care about me.He sped past me so quickly.
I live in the Cotswolds and I used to see these wonderful creatures most days but recently we have been troubled by illegal hare coursing and they are not such a common sight as they were
That used to be the case in Norfolk too but recently the police have been really cracking down on it and it seems to be working.
Poop eating club 😂 such great short little videos packed with info, keep them coming!
Haha, I didnt think they were words I would ever use in a video but nature is nature... Thanks for your support, the next video is out now: Things you need to know about Hedgehogs!
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Hares are also very common in new zealand .They are very hardy animals and can live in very cold alpine areas living on course alpine grasses.
Did I hear "idiots with dogs" [3:54? If so, that is a personal opinion and not information and ruins what otherwise is a good presentation on the hare.
It'll take a fast young dog to run a hare down, one that's been specifically bred for the task I.e. Lurchers etc. So I took it to mean poachers when he said that, as hare coursing is now illegal in the UK...... So yes, he could have phrased it better!
In the UK hares were even safer before the skies were filled with with apex predator buzzards and kites. It used to be true that plenty of leverets on a farm was an indicator of effective management of fox numbers. Nowadays the declining number of field hares is likely to be due to the numbers of buzzards and kites, both these species thriving. Are hares adapting by spending their daylight hours in deciduous & mixed woodland? Just ask yourself where you'd choose to live with (scaled up) 18' wingspan predators soaring overhead.
Brown hares aren't declining according to the game and wildlife Trust, they have increased by 50% in recent years, and that figure comes from a pro-hunting organisation.
Aren't male hares called jacks and females called jills? As far as I know, a doe and a buck are terms used for rabbits.
I think there may be regional differences. In the UK the correct term is definitely buck and doe but I think it's different in the USA
As a child I thought they look like evil psycho rabbits but nowadays reality admirer there beauty and untamed nature.
They are beautiful.
they are faster running uphill than downhill
Scientific names of all thirty-six extant hare species:
1) Lepus timidus - Mountain Hare
2) Lepus tibetanus - Tibetan Hare
3) Lepus tolai - Tolai Hare
4) Lepus comus - Yunnan Hare
5) Lepus oiostolus - Himalayan Hare
6) Sinolagus yarkandensis - Yarkand Hare
7) Sinolagus sinensis - Chinese Hare
8) Sinolagus formosanus - Formosan Hare
9) Sinolagus hainanus - Hainan Hare
10) Sinolagus mandshuricus - Manchurian Hare
11) Sinolagus coreanus - Korean Hare
12) Sinolagus brachyurus - Japanese Hare
13) Poecilolagus othus - Alaskan Hare
14) Poecilolagus americanus - Snowshoe Hare
15) Poecilolagus arcticus - Arctic Hare
16) Otolagus townsendii - White-Tailed Jackrabbit
17) Otolagus californicus - Black-Tailed Jackrabbit
18) Otolagus callotis - White-Sided Jackrabbit
19) Macrotolagus alleni - Antelope Jackrabbit
20) Macrotolagus insularis - Black Jackrabbit
21) Macrotolagus altamirae - Tamaulipas Jackrabbit
22) Ammolagus flavigularis - Tehuantepec Jackrabbit
23) Eulagus europaeus - Brown Hare
24) Eulagus italicus - Italian Hare
25) Eulagus corsicanus - Corsican Hare
26) Eulagus granatensis - Granada Hare
27) Eulagus castroviejoi - Broom Hare
28) Indolagus nigricollis - Indian Hare
29) Indolagus singhala - Sri Lanka Hare
30) Indolagus peguensis - Burmese Hare
31) Afrolagus victoriae - African Savanna Hare
32) Afrolagus fagani - Ethiopian Lowland Hare
33) Afrolagus starcki - Ethiopian Highland Hare
34) Afrolagus habessicanus - Abyssinian Hare
35) Afrolagus capensis - Cape Hare
36) Afrolagus saxatilis - Scrub Hare
They remind me of micro Wallaby's..
I don't think they are as many hares in the East Riding of Yorkshire where i live. If a buzzard can take a rabbit which they do they will definitely be able to take young hares. But I can still see four or five on my walk in the morning most days.
I know that there´s a whole bunch of them on my head.
Ja go znam, dajcie mu spokój, to mój ziomek, WOLNOŚĆ DLA HARESÓW!!!!
Magical animals that should never be hunted
It always amazes me how animals know exactly what do when they have babies but humans don’t!
Make pretty good soup to
So how many different types of hare are their?
In the UK there are 2 but 3 subspecies. The brown hare, the Irish hare and the mountain hare.
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Cool I had no idea
In Ireland hare coursing with greyhounds is a popular pastime in the country. It is very cruel and when caught, the poor hares cry like terrified babies.
If people think that animals don't suffer, they need to listen on loop to the sounds of a terrified hare.
Also it’s completely legal to hunt them without a license, all you need is a farmer’s permission to be on his land
can hares interbreed with rabbits?
No. They are too far separated genetically to successfully breed although there are some species that look almost like a hybrid.
Boudicca had a hare in the folds of her cloak ...