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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		Rabbits and Hares, Oh My!
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2018-03-01 12:49:19
	Description:		How much do you know about Wisconsin’s rabbits and hares? In this week’s episode of Wildlife Matters , the Masked Biologist examines the lagomorphs of Wisconsin. It is most likely that we only have two native “lagomorphs,” or members of the order Lagomorpha , in Wisconsin: the snowshoe hare and the eastern cottontail rabbit. The cottontail rabbit is common across the entire state. It prefers areas that have shelter in close proximity to open spaces where it can feed on succulent green plants. Cottontails do not change color, keeping basically a brown pelt year round. They start breeding in late winter or early spring, and have two or three litters of young, through the snow-free season, each litter having three or four leverets (baby bunnies). The young are hairless and blind, lying in a nest that is nothing more than a shallow depression in the grass for about two weeks. After that time, they are covered with hair, their eyes are open, and they are able to move about. In the winter
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