Hare
noun
A fast-running, long-eared mammal that resembles a large rabbit, having very long hind legs and typically found in grassland or open woodland.
In the countryside, you might see a hare running in the fields.
Often appears as...
- brown hare
- mountain hare
verb
To run swiftly; to sprint.
She had to hare down the street to catch her bus on time.
Often appears as...
- hare off
- hare after
noun
A fast-running, long-eared mammal that resembles a large rabbit, having very long hind legs and typically found in grassland or open woodland.
In the countryside, you might see a hare running in the fields.
Often appears as...
- brown hare
- mountain hare
verb
To run swiftly; to sprint.
She had to hare down the street to catch her bus on time.
Often appears as...
- hare off
- hare after
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Pro Tip 1/3Wild habitat
Hares live in the wild, unlike rabbits, which can be domesticated.
The natural habitat of a hare is more likely to be a field than a garden.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a rabbit
Although hares look like rabbits, remember they are larger and have longer legs.
In a nature documentary, you might learn how to distinguish a hare from a rabbit.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural symbol
Hares are often associated with speed and agility in various cultures.
The story of the tortoise and the hare emphasizes the hare's swift nature.
Pro Tip 1/3Wild habitat
Hares live in the wild, unlike rabbits, which can be domesticated.
The natural habitat of a hare is more likely to be a field than a garden.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a rabbit
Although hares look like rabbits, remember they are larger and have longer legs.
In a nature documentary, you might learn how to distinguish a hare from a rabbit.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural symbol
Hares are often associated with speed and agility in various cultures.
The story of the tortoise and the hare emphasizes the hare's swift nature.
Pro Tip 1/3Wild habitat
Hares live in the wild, unlike rabbits, which can be domesticated.
The natural habitat of a hare is more likely to be a field than a garden.
Pro Tip 2/3Not a rabbit
Although hares look like rabbits, remember they are larger and have longer legs.
In a nature documentary, you might learn how to distinguish a hare from a rabbit.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural symbol
Hares are often associated with speed and agility in various cultures.
The story of the tortoise and the hare emphasizes the hare's swift nature.
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Now it's Dad's Turn PIPE...
in their feeding and mating habits hares mate for life the female providing the eggs to the male who fertilizes them in his pouch and carries the young and till they pass I guess the the unique reproductive strategy that that they have with the the male falling pregnant and giving
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Sophisticated Mountain...
fashionable hair that wants to blend in Mountain hares are mainly nocturnal spending most of the day resting they also spend a hefty portion of their time grooming perhaps personal hygiene is important amongst hair culture or perhaps there's just not much else to do
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Strange answers to the...
that he was mad in this new way he was a psychopath and his clinician said to me if you want to know more about Psychopaths he can go on a Psychopaths spotting course run by Robert hare who invented the psychopathy checklist so I did I went on a Psychopaths possum
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BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
normal hares whiskers also sit three times deeper in the skin where they attach to nerve endings telling the cat how far each one is being bent back and how quickly their whiskers are the same width as their body allowing cats to navigate the narrowest spaces
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There's one final reason that I think talking about gross stuff is so important, and that's because you just never know what you're going to find when you peel back all those layers of disgustingness. So, take the California brown sea hare.
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Jim & Jamie Dutcher: The...
either killed them or chase them away this has increased the number of rodents rabbits hares pocket gophers field mice animals that provide food for struggling birds of praise owls hawks and eagles are now doing much better the drop in
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Safari Live - Day 202 PIPE...
first one they are very common we do find them at most watching holes you can say oh it goes he's going for the heron he's chasing a hare in there now the heron is also fish eater and is it said to the heron this is my pond
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Different ways of...
It stands to reason that we, existing in this world, should in the course of our lives absorb intuitively those relationships. And poets, like other artists, play with those intuitive understandings. In the case of hare,
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Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...
and the videos reveal an array of life hard to imagine in these stark and inhospitable mountains argali wolves ibex bears hares marmot and chuffs
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Elusive Wolves Sighted...
they're a snowshoe hares the huge feet perfectly adapted to hop across the deep snow
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Now it's Dad's Turn PIPE...
in their feeding and mating habits hares mate for life the female providing the eggs to the male who fertilizes them in his pouch and carries the young and till they pass I guess the the unique reproductive strategy that that they have with the the male falling pregnant and giving
Video examples
Sophisticated Mountain...
fashionable hair that wants to blend in Mountain hares are mainly nocturnal spending most of the day resting they also spend a hefty portion of their time grooming perhaps personal hygiene is important amongst hair culture or perhaps there's just not much else to do
Video examples
Strange answers to the...
that he was mad in this new way he was a psychopath and his clinician said to me if you want to know more about Psychopaths he can go on a Psychopaths spotting course run by Robert hare who invented the psychopathy checklist so I did I went on a Psychopaths possum
Video examples
BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
normal hares whiskers also sit three times deeper in the skin where they attach to nerve endings telling the cat how far each one is being bent back and how quickly their whiskers are the same width as their body allowing cats to navigate the narrowest spaces
Video examples
Why you should love...
There's one final reason that I think talking about gross stuff is so important, and that's because you just never know what you're going to find when you peel back all those layers of disgustingness. So, take the California brown sea hare.
Video examples
Jim & Jamie Dutcher: The...
either killed them or chase them away this has increased the number of rodents rabbits hares pocket gophers field mice animals that provide food for struggling birds of praise owls hawks and eagles are now doing much better the drop in
Video examples
Safari Live - Day 202 PIPE...
first one they are very common we do find them at most watching holes you can say oh it goes he's going for the heron he's chasing a hare in there now the heron is also fish eater and is it said to the heron this is my pond
Video examples
Different ways of...
It stands to reason that we, existing in this world, should in the course of our lives absorb intuitively those relationships. And poets, like other artists, play with those intuitive understandings. In the case of hare,
Video examples
Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...
and the videos reveal an array of life hard to imagine in these stark and inhospitable mountains argali wolves ibex bears hares marmot and chuffs
Video examples
Elusive Wolves Sighted...
they're a snowshoe hares the huge feet perfectly adapted to hop across the deep snow
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Robert Eggers
American Director
Tons of folktales have to do with hares and witches. Basically, witches all over Europe turn into hares and are able to do malevolent things in the form of a hare. It goes back to the great god Pan. Pan is, if we're going to do archetypal projections, related to the Christian Satan, but as a child, Pan was wrapped in a hare's hide.
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Peter Molyneux
English Designer
I remembered a long time ago, Kit Williams hid a golden hare somewhere in Britain and wrote a book which was layered with clues about where the it was. This really fired my imagination, I read the book and it was way too cryptic for me to understand, but it seemed to fascinated people - it even got on the news.
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of 'escape of energy,' that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
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Anita Brookner
English Historian
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
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John Berger
English Artist
The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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John Major
British Politician
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
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Meriwether Lewis
American Explorer
The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.
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Christopher Lloyd
American Actor
I got a few speeding tickets when I was young, but I'm a little more like the turtle than the hare.
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Anita Brookner
English Historian
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
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Anita Brookner
English Historian
In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.
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Robert Eggers
American Director
Tons of folktales have to do with hares and witches. Basically, witches all over Europe turn into hares and are able to do malevolent things in the form of a hare. It goes back to the great god Pan. Pan is, if we're going to do archetypal projections, related to the Christian Satan, but as a child, Pan was wrapped in a hare's hide.
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Peter Molyneux
English Designer
I remembered a long time ago, Kit Williams hid a golden hare somewhere in Britain and wrote a book which was layered with clues about where the it was. This really fired my imagination, I read the book and it was way too cryptic for me to understand, but it seemed to fascinated people - it even got on the news.
Quote examples
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French Philosopher
I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of 'escape of energy,' that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.
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Anita Brookner
English Historian
In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
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John Berger
English Artist
The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
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John Major
British Politician
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
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Meriwether Lewis
American Explorer
The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.
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Christopher Lloyd
American Actor
I got a few speeding tickets when I was young, but I'm a little more like the turtle than the hare.
Quote examples
Anita Brookner
English Historian
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
Quote examples
Anita Brookner
English Historian
In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.
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