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Hare today, food tomorrow: Snowshoe hares face climate change
2016-01-26 02:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The snowshoe hare has a coat for every occasion. Well, actually, just two coats for two occasions: a white one for winter and a brown one for summer. This special molting pattern helps the unassuming furballs blend into the landscape and stay out of the crosshairs of bobcats, foxes, and owls. But when the final snow melts earlier and earlier in the spring thanks to climate change, the hare`s natural molting pattern is off, leading to "camouflage mismatch." And no, "camouflage mismatch" isn`t...
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