Golden-Coloured Eyes

Brown hares have large golden-coloured eyes set on the side of their heads, providing them with almost 360 degree vision. . . . This all-round vision means that from their hiding place they can view everything about them. It is a fallacy that hares never close their eyes. They shut them when they are fighting to avoid injury and also when they are dozing. In common with many other animals that are the prey rather than the hunter, they do not go into a deep sleep.

– Jill Mason
The Hare
pp. 49-50

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