Woolly+Hare

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 The name of my animal is the woolly hare. It is very furry and its closest relatives are the pikas who live in the mountains and the tundra and rabbits. I can classify the woolly hare as a mammal because it gives birth to young alive, feeds its babies with milk and it is warm blooded.

 The life cycle of the woolly hare starts as a bab y.Baby hares are called leverets. The adult woolly hare nurtures the baby hare everyday from 18 to 19 hours. Over the months, the baby hares fur gets dry and it can walk. It takes about a month for its fur to get dry. Then, it grows into a young woolly hare. They weigh about two pounds (fifty~seven grams) and the gestation (how long it takes to have a baby) period is thirty~six to thirty~seven days. The arctic hare mates at the year of one and have two to three litters a year. The leverets are a little bit darker darker than the adults and have a slightly colored back. The life span of a hare is about 8 to 11 years in the wild.
 * 1. Classify **
 * *What is the name of your animal?
 * How can you classify it?

 The arctic hare is busy from dawn till the beginning of darkness in the evening .They don't make nests and they don't dig burrows. They just rest under a tree and move on. They also travel in groups. Sometimes in groups of 120! The arctic hare only lives in Alaska. The arctic hare likes to live on rocky places and tundras of the arctic. They don't like to live in low places or wooden places. The climate there is quite cloudy and its tempreture is 43 degrees. 
 * 2. Life Cycle **
 * *What is the life cycle of your animal?
 * *How long does it live for?
 * 3. Habitat **
 * *What is your animal's habitat?
 * What continent, country and climate of habitat does it live in?

The woolly hare eats many extraordaniry things.Their main food is the Arctic willow but they also eat wood plants, plant buds, fruit berries, leaves from plants and little bits of grass from the ground. Hares occasionally eat meat. They nibble at the skin and hair on a muskox carcass. In Rankin Inlet (in Nunavut), Arctic hares frequent the town garbage dump in winter to search for food and in Baker Lake (in Nunavut) they break into garbage bags awaiting pick-up which means they are eating kitchen scraps. Thus I can classify the woolly hare as an omnivore because it eats both plants and scraps of meat.  Arctic hares are f ood for snowy owls, other birds of prey, wolves, foxes, weasels, and polar bears. So it must always be alert and ready to hop away if it senses an enemy. People are also hunting arctic hares for food and other reasons. When spotted by a predator, it hops away in a rush. In snow-covered areas,global warming could increase the occurrence of repeated freezing and thawing which could lead to the build up of an ice crust above the grass. This would prevent the hares from eating grasses and mosses and sometimes even killing the plants. Climate changes like this would then threatened the wolly hares' food supply. The arctic hare will live with about 200 other hares, and will often work together to achieve what is needed for their survival. For example, in the freezing temperatures, the arctic hares may huddle together to conserve body heat. They will curl themselves almost into a ball, by sitting on their hind feet which have a thick fur coating and folding their ears down. This helps them to keep their body heat from escaping. In winter they turn really white so as to camouflage themselves from their enemies and not easily eaten. 
 * 4. Food **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*What does your animal eat?[[image:http://users.iab.uaf.edu/~emily_weiser/pics%20landscapes,%20flowers,%20camp/ArcticWillow.jpg width="128" height="167" align="right"]]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Is it an omnivore, herbivore or carnivore?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Predators **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*What are your animal's enemies?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What threatens its ability to survive?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How does it protect itself?

The woolly hares may fight like box, scratch, snap but they never bite each other. Many people mistake hares from rabbits. Well rabbits (except the cottontail rabbits) live underground in burrows or warrens, while hares (and cottontail rabbits) live in simple nests above the ground. Hares are generally larger than rabbits, with longer ears, and have black markings on their fur. Hares have not been domesticated, while rabbits are often kept as house pets. There is a domestic pet known as the Belgian Hare but this is a rabbit that has been especially bred to look like a hare. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Arctic hares are hunted for their meat and pelts by those who live in their range, but they are not considered endangered. Arctic hares have a lifespan of about 5 years, and the young mature much faster than other hare species.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">6. Interesting Facts **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*What are some interesting facts about your animal?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What about them would most people find unusual

The changes in climate affect the enviroment where the woolly hare lives. We must not worsen global warming by polluting the air around us with huge gases that destroy our ozone layer. **<span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16px;">The gas called CFC (chloro-fluoro-carbons, also called freon) helps keep the refrigerator cold, but when released also destroys ozone layer. The destruction of ozone layer stops filtering of UV rays from the sun causing human cancer to us and destroy plant life that is a source of food for many animals including the woolly hare. So, instead of CFC's, HFC (hydro-fluoro-carbons) are used for refrigerators now. Maybe more countries could agree to reduce the release of carbon monoxide and other poisonous gases into the air by their factories. **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> wikipedia.com. yahoo! answers. scary creatures of the arctic book. blogs on arctic animals. 8. Resources **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*Is your animal endangered?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Why is it endangered?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*Why is it important to save your animal?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*What can you do to help save your animal?
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 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">*What books and website did you use?