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An exploration of the relationship between humans and the charismatic and elusive hare. To the people of rural Britain, hares are deeply beloved, perhaps above all other animals. They thrive in abundance in imagery but can be maddeningly elusive in reality. In our stories – ancient and modern – they are magical, uncanny and illogical beings which commune with the moon, vanish at will, and lose their minds when spring arrives. Yet despite the breadth and depth of its legends, the brown hare of the lowlands is a relative newcomer to our islands, and our 'real' ancient hare is the mountain hare of the most unforgiving high mountainsides. Hares of myth have godly powers, but real, earthbound...
Presents the results of the national survey carried out in 1991-1993, discussing the findings in relation to previous knowledge, and drawing tentative conclusions about which factors are influencing the size and health of Britain's brown hare population.
Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Nature Protection, Landscape Conservation, grade: 1,3, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (Institut für Natur- und Ressourcenschutz Abteilung Landschaftsökologie), course: Environmental Management, Umweltmanagement, language: English, abstract: The stock of the European brown hare (Lepus europaeus PALLAS, 1778) is declining since decades, in Germany as well as in other European countries.At the same time,the occurrence of European brown hares is a new phenomenon in urban areas. Hence,Lichtenberg, a city district of Berlin, the capital of Germany, even assumed a special responsibility for its new inhabitants. Whereas a method for the qua...
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich in diesem Zusammenhang mit der Ermittlung von European Brown Hare Syndrome (EBHS) - Infektionsgrade, Infektionswahrscheinlichkeit und deren Beziehungen zu Populations- und Umweltfaktoren sowie der Infektions- und Mortalitätsrate durch das EBHS- Virus in Hasenpopulationen in Deutschland. In den Jahren 1989 und 1990/91 wurde das EBHS aus 27 verschiedenen Regionen der Bundesländer Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg- Vorpommern, Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen untersucht. Diese Regionen wurden zu acht Untersuchungsgebieten zusammengefasst: westliches Untersuchungsgebiet, Hildesheimer- Braunschweiger Börde, südniedersäch...