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Climate Change Is Deadly for Snowshoe Hares
2016-01-23 18:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Pacific Standard: When the final snow melts in the springtime, there are always some snowshoe hares that haven't yet changed their white winter coats to their brown summer ones. That's lucky for Marketa Zimova, a doctoral student in biology at North Carolina State University who studies the hares in western Montana. The contrast between the bunnies' fair fur and dark surroundings made them easy to spot, and the hares don't seem to realize how much they stand out. "They so rely on their camouflage that they stay put,"...
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