Behavioural Adaptations to Arctic Winter: Shelter Seeking by Arctic Hare (Lepus arcticus)

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Gray, David R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1993
• Subjects: Animal behaviour; Cold adaptation; Cold physiology; Denning; Hares; Predation; Shelters; Snowdrifts; Temperature; Thermoregulation; Winter ecology; Bathurst Island; Nunavut; Ellesmere Island; Sverdrup Pass; Arctic; Arctic hare; Arctique*; Lepus arcticus; Lièvre arctique
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64417

Behavioural modifications used by arctic hares, Lepus arcticus, to maintain their normal body temperature in late winter, including posture, orientation, the use of natural shelter, and the digging of snow dens, were studied on Ellesmere Island, N.W.T., between 1985 and 1992 and on Bathurst Island,...