Irish hare

A chance meeting during an afternoon walk.

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Irish hare

This photo is from a delightful article that appeared in LIFE Magazine back in 1956. It is the usual fate of the Irish hare, a wild strain betwixt the Scottish and European varieties, to sleep by day in the hedgerows and by night to scurry through plowed fields in search of leafy delicacies. To live long he must be a wary hare, on guard always against man, his guns and dogs. This might have been the life of Horace, the loveable hare, had he not fallen three years ago (1953) into the hands of…

Researchers are on the hunt for Ireland's native hares, which are under threat from their European cousin

Female hares can conceive a second litter of offspring while still pregnant with the first through a phenomenon called ‘superfetation.’