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Study ties climate change disappearing rabbits in Michigan
2014-11-23 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Detroit Free Press: A color-changing rabbit once found hopping through fields and forests across Michigan has become so rare, hunters choose not to shoot it. Not since the mid-1990s has a customer asked White Lake taxidermist Doug Ellis, 51, to mount a snowshoe hare. "They're beautiful," he said. "But you just don't see them." The rabbits have coats that adapt with the seasons to camouflage them with their environment. They turn white during the snow season and brown the rest of the year. With last winter an...
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