The Leveret

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The Brown hare is thought to have moved eastwards from the steppes of Asia, as humans cleared the forests for farming during the Neolithic p...

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The hunted hare that runs in circles is usually a doe. If the hounds lose her scent she goes back to the place from which they started her. ...

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The larger wild birds of prey everywhere take their toll of hares. In Britain, Brown hares are at risk from the likes of hen harriers, buzz...

Following is the first of three excepts from Vittorio Lingiardi’s book Men in Love: Male Homosexualities from Ganymede to Batman . _____...

September: Time of the darkening equinox, the balance between sun and shadow. Full of the magic of change – not always a comfortable magic....

The ancient myths in which animals were gods were gradually transformed until nothing was left but an anecdote or superstition which had los...

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The subject of hares is a much disputed one. . . . Some early naturalists termed the hare family Dasypoda which in Greek signifies that the...

Subject: Unknown. Photographer: Fred Goudon .