{"id":247,"date":"2007-08-01T22:43:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T03:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/01\/what-i-thought-were-rabbits\/"},"modified":"2007-08-02T00:49:21","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T05:49:21","slug":"what-i-thought-were-rabbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/01\/what-i-thought-were-rabbits\/","title":{"rendered":"What I thought were rabbits…"},"content":{"rendered":"

… were really hares<\/a>. My neighbourhood (and Edmonton in general) seems to be well-populated with these creatures, and today I was able to snap a picture of one in my backyard through a window without scaring it off. A bit of research on Wikipedia<\/a> revealed it to be a common type of hare known as the White-tailed jackrabbit<\/em><\/a>, prevalent in North America, especially in the western regions such as Alberta. <\/p>\n

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As from its information page<\/a>, the white-tailed jackrabbit (or Lepus townsendii<\/cite>), is mainly a nocturnal creature, though they’ve been seen quite a bit during the day here. In colder regions like here, they will moult to change colours with the season, and keep up the camouflage. Though mammals, they do have a range of body temperature in hot, arid climates, and “voluntary hyperthermia” allows their internal temperature to rise to 41 C. <\/p>\n

They have insatiable appetites, and feed off plants like grass. (Homeowners, beware!) They are apparently extremely mobile, being able to run up to 55 km\/hr, and will run in zig-zag patterns to lose predators. They can also swim and can leap up to 5 m! Thus, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to catch one yourself, unless you’re quite clever. <\/p>\n

See the rest of the photos here<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… were really hares. My neighbourhood (and Edmonton in general) seems to be well-populated with these creatures, and today I was able to snap a picture of one in my backyard through a window without scaring it off. A bit of research on Wikipedia revealed it to be a common type of hare known as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55,165,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitstep.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}