How to Use snowshoe hare in a Sentence

snowshoe hare

noun

• But the wolves also feasted on beavers and snowshoe hares.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
• Fresh food in March, if people were lucky, was fish from traps set in ice and grouse and snowshoe hares snared with loops of sinew.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Mar. 2018
• There is some good news for the snowshoe hare, however.
  — Author: Livia Albeck Ripka, Brad Plumer, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2018
• Like the iconic arctic fox, the snowshoe hare dons white fur for the winter—a good camouflage in the snow.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2018
• The felines that leave behind perfect-circle tracks in the snow are the perfect predator of the snowshoe hare.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2021
• Climate change has not been kind to Michigan’s snowshoe hare.
  — Michigan Wildlife Council, Detroit Free Press, 20 Dec. 2017
• With willows now tall enough to poke through snow, snowshoe hares can find winter food and hiding spots all the way to the Arctic Ocean.
  — Katie Orlinsky, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
• We’ve only visited in winter, when the tracks of snowshoe hares and the hoof prints of moose pepper the forest.
  — Brian Irwin, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Every few years, snowshoe hare numbers in the Canadian Yukon climb to a peak.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021
• Near McGrath, Jack Whitman found the rear half of one snowshoe hare in one box and the matching front half in another, just 1,200 feet away.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2018
• Consider the snowshoe hare, whose fur coat has evolved to change from brown to white during the winter for camouflage.
  — Author: Livia Albeck Ripka, Brad Plumer, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2018
• When snowshoe hare numbers are high, lynx often have more kittens, Taras said.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Jan. 2021
• Boonstra knew that during the decline phase of the snowshoe hare cycle, the great majority of hares are killed by predators.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Aug. 2021
• This is due to warming temperatures that allow shrubs to get bigger, providing food and shelter for the snowshoe hare, even in the snowy winter months.
  — National Geographic, 20 Feb. 2020
• The snowshoe hare population peaks and then crashes about every 10 years, and the lynx usually follow suit, Battle said.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2020
• Walker, when once asked what his favorite animal was, answered: snowshoe hare.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Oct. 2019
• Isle Royale’s recently bolstered wolf population is doing just fine at finding moose, beaver and snowshoe hares to eat.
  — John Myers, Twin Cities, 3 Dec. 2019
• Although not specifically designed to identify smaller prey, the study also revealed the importance of beaver and snowshoe hare in the diets of wolves.
  — John Myers, Twin Cities, 3 Dec. 2019
• Animals like the snowshoe hare, found in the boreal forests of Alaska, undergo a seasonal molt from brown in the summer to white in the winter to camouflage with their environment.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 21 Dec. 2018
• However, thanks to extensive wildlife habitat management in recent years, Michigan’s snowshoe hares have been given a leg up in their fight for survival.
  — Michigan Wildlife Council, Detroit Free Press, 20 Dec. 2017
• That’s good news for snowshoe hares, the scientists say: As the climate warms, ever-larger regions will be snowless, making the white fur an ever-greater liability.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 21 June 2018
• Under the proposal, the Horicon refuge would be open to hunting for woodcock, moorhen, coyote, ruffed grouse, opossum, raccoon, fox, skunk, bobcat, snowshoe hare and black bear on acres already open to other hunting.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Apr. 2020
• Coyotes, lynx and fox have benefited from the increasing snowshoe hare population.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2018
• Lynx numbers are high in Anchorage right now, following a population boom of snowshoe hares in Southcentral Alaska, according to Battle.
  — Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 21 Oct 2024