Study finds change in snow cover patterns making snowshoe hare more vulnerable

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers in the United States has found evidence to suggest that global warming may be making snowshoe hare's more vulnerable to prey as the cycle of snow cover change in their environment leaves them with the wrong color coat at times. In their paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group details how they compared molting times of snowshoe hares with the time and duration of snow cover and found enough overlap to indicate the hares appear to heading towards vulnerability.

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