Rabbits (unlike #hares)
are born without any hair.
I'm NOT splitting hairs.

Two wabbits!!

Usually our resident hare is alone… will we be blessed with a fluffle of little bunnies soon?

This Black-tailed Jackrabbit's ears look to have seen better days - getting 'Bigwig' vibes. #Photography #Hares #Nature

Exactly a year ago I completed these three Leaping Animal prints including stags, foxes and hares.

They are each two colour screenprints.

Jackrabbits - well, all #hares, and all non-lop #rabbits - have great ears. Younger folks won't remember indoor TV aerials affectionately called "rabbit ears", but the name was apt.

Here's a white-tailed jackrabbit - which yes, is actually a hare, not a rabbit - who has his ears up monitoring for threats while he munches some food. They turn to face different directions to focus sound from, like a radar dish, and they both operate independently. I call this "swivel mode".

I mentioned that #jackrabbits / #hares are solitary and territorial before. As they are cute little #bunnies, some people find it hard to believe.

Here's a short video I shot today. One approaches another, and they start "boxing" and #grunting at each other (sound up!). This one doesn't turn into anything too bad, but if you get a couple of aggressive ones, it can lead to biting and blood and ... hard to believe, for #rabbits.

Two prairie #jackrabbits in the front yard, fiercely doing a little shadowboxing [1] - they aren't contacting each other because they're sitting on opposite sides of the #bunny bowl.

They lose a little of the #gravitas when they plunge their whole face into the food so they're up to the eyeballs in pellets, and then stare balefully at each other while doing crunch crunch crunch...

[1] jackrabbits, which are actually #hares, not #rabbits, are fiercely territorial and will try to chase other hares out of "their" spaces.

Feldhase kratzt sich an der Nase
Hare Scratches Its Nose
April 2018
#Hasen -> https://www.goehde.com/fotos/index.php?/category/925

"Is it always going to be hot?"

"I know it feels like it, Little Nutbrown Hare, but it will get cool again."

"When?"

"When the time is right. Nature is a wonderful thing."

This 20-minute short is so calming, adorable, playful and nature-reverent! Highly recommend!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSE6QzPJkKA

Вес гигантского меноркского зайца, вымершего около пяти миллионов лет назад, мог достигать двадцати килограммов.
#интересныйфакт #science #зайцы #hares #extinct

Urban jackrabbits look like the streets have made them ready for anything

When I'm no longer excited every time I see a hare, just pop me in my coffin.

Used Easter to have a couple of weeks break from social media and spend more time out with my camera. This week's photo is an April Hare. Hope you like it.

New on my #blog: https://aspi.blog/2024/02/16/pizza-making/
#Pizza #PizzaExpress #PizzaMaking #photography #birds #hares #starlings #sparrows #Autism #AutismAcceptance
An account of a pizza making session at the #KingsLynn branch of Pizza Express, organised by the #WestNorfolkAutismGroup and also one of my regular photo galleries.

Here are all three prints side by side.

I will take proper photos next week.

The hares are printed! Just the stags to finish now.

2/2 And not one, but three, arrived today. I will fill these with memories and treasure them. Thank you Billy Custom Gifts!