Alexander Nosov

Hare chronicle. Whose traces lead from forest roads

On a cold, slushy day, when autumn had not yet completely given up its rights to winter, I was returning from a distant cordon, where, as a forester, I marked trees intended for lumberjacks. The snow that had fallen in the evening melted noticeably in the morning, but in some places it still held. Unexpectedly, I came across fairly fresh hare footprints. This is when the animal, making long jumps, brings its hind legs behind the front ones. Since we were on our way, I followed him.

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Moving along the edge of the reclamation ditch, the scythe now and then stopped near alder bushes sticking out of the snow and tufts of dry grass. From the tracks it was clear that he treated himself thoroughly: he carefully chose the best stems. Having finished with another meal, he ran on.

Noticing a thawed salt lick a little away from the ditch, the scythe immediately rushed towards it. Hurrying, he did not notice the "warmhouse" - an unfrozen swamp. The unreliable ice, which had barely settled on it, broke under its weight. The beast instantly reacted, managed to jump out into the snow, but nevertheless plunged into the peat slurry with its belly. When he dusted himself off, there were brown spots on the snow.

After such a bath, oblique, forgetting about the salt lick, hurried away. But he had not gone even fifty meters, as a black grouse hurriedly tumbled into a snowy hole behind a large stump. It was obvious that both were very frightened. The scythe jumped headlong over the ditch and rushed along the other side.

The suddenly awakened forest rooster was at first unable even to fly up. Only somehow coming to his senses, he fell out of the hole and flew up to the nearest tree, where I saw him. Sitting on a branch, the black grouse, bristling his feathers, muttered softly: "Chuffshi, chuffshi, chuffshi." Probably, in this way he expressed indignation that he was so unceremoniously disturbed.

Further, the tracks of the hare led me to an aspen windblow. The wind knocked down several trees, and, of course, the hares are right there. After all, aspen is their favorite food. It was noticeable that this place was also actively visited: all the thin twigs and shoots were cut off “under the root”, and the thick ones were completely gnawed.

"My" hare did not pay attention to the gnawed aspens and stopped at another tree, partially gnawed, about twenty meters from them. He did not feed on the scythe for long, something obviously frightened him away. This, again, was noticeable in the tracks: since, having hastily decided to leave the place of feeding, the hare changed its previous walking run to racing. This is clear evidence that he sensed danger.

And then I saw the tracks of the fox. You can’t confuse them with any others: the prints of all four paws of the beast form, as it were, a figure resembling a trapezoid. Probably, the red-haired beast knew well about the hare "canteen" and also decided to hunt.

Oblique, seeing the fox, immediately set off on the run. Predator behind him. However, the race did not last long: as soon as the hare jumped out of the aspen forest, he immediately found himself at a rather wide - sixty meters - blackening clearing. It was calm, well lit by the sun, and therefore the snow melted and only mud remained.

But if the oblique, escaping, jumped straight into the mud and was like that, then Patrikeevna did not dare to take such an extraordinary act. I didn't want to get dirty either. Especially since the road home led in the other direction. Yes, and the hunt is almost over, because, having trampled on the spot, the fox first slowly scurried along the clearing, then turned aside and headed for the aspen forest. Thus admitting that potential prey had eluded her...

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The hare footprints that mark the entire path of the hare in the snow during the night, starting from his lair, where he spent the day, to the fattening, that is, the place where he fed, and back to bed, is called malik. Hare tracks, very diverse in nature, must be able to recognize, which has a very great importance, since for most rifle hunters tracking down hares, mainly hares, is the main, and sometimes the only available way of winter hunting.

First of all, it should be noted that tracking the whites is very difficult, and therefore they “trail” almost exclusively the hare. The white coat of the hare, which differs very little from the snow surface, the intricacy of the hare's tracks, and the usually strong place for the lair, are the reasons that allow the hare to almost always go unnoticed. In addition, the convergence of a hare malik is always tiring, because the hare extremely confuses its moves, fills paths, runs into fats and into the paths of other hare, circles around, throwing a noose, and generally confuses hare tracks so much that even the most experienced hunter spends a lot of time on search for whites. Therefore, in areas where both hare and hare are found, it is very important to be able to distinguish their hare tracks, which is given very soon.

A - trace of a hare; B - trace of a hare on the crust; B - trace of a hare; G - trace of a hare on the crust.

In a hare living in a forest, where the snow is looser than in a field, the paws are comparatively wider and rounder, or rather, have widely spread fingers, so that it leaves hare footprints in the snow, approaching a circle in outline; in the hare, the paw is narrower and less widened, and its footprint is oval, elliptical.

When the snow is not very loose, with the so-called printing powder, the prints of individual fingers will come out, but the hare marks of the hind legs of the hare will still be much wider than that of the hare. More elongated and parallel to each other and slightly ahead of one another, the hare footprints belong to the hind legs, and those approaching the outline of a circle and following one after the other, in one line - to the front.

A sitting hare leaves hare footprints of a completely different kind: the prints of the front paws are almost together, and the hind legs somewhat lose their mutual parallelism, and since the hare, while sitting, bends its hind legs to the first articulation, the entire groove is imprinted on the trail, except for the paws. With the exception of this case, i.e., sitting, hare footprints of the hind legs always remain parallel, and if traces are seen on loose snow in which the larger prints of the hind legs go apart - clubfoot, then these are not traces of a hare, but of a dog, cat or foxes when they hop. The same can be said about the track, in which one hind foot is far ahead of the other.

From left to right: end tracks, discount end tracks, fat tracks, chasing tracks, jumping chasing tracks.

The normal run of a hare is large jumps, and he takes out his hind legs almost or completely at the same time, and puts his front legs sequentially one after another. Only with very large jumps does the hare put the front legs almost together.

Ordinary hare tracks are called terminal, since with such medium jumps he goes to fats and returns from them.

The fatty hare tracks differ from the end prints in that the paw prints are very close to each other and the individual tracks almost merge. These hare tracks are called fatty because the hares make them where they feed, slowly moving from place to place, often sitting down.

Discount or estimating hare tracks are left by the largest jumps made at an angle to the original direction of the track. The hare tries to hide them, cut off his trail, before he decides to lie down. The number of discount jumps is usually one, two, three, rarely four, after which there are again ordinary, trailing hare tracks. For the most part, before the discount, the hare doubles its trail. Discount hare tracks differ from the end tracks by the distance between the tracks and by the fact that the prints of the front paws are together. Chasing or wild hare tracks are made by a hare when it is scared away from the lair - and it goes in big jumps. These hare tracks are very similar either to the discount ones or to the end tracks, but in the opposite direction, because the prints of the front paws are closer to the prints of the hind legs of the previous, and not the same jump.

Schematic plan of the hare's path to laying (indicated by a red cross):

a loop;
a loop;
estimate;
a loop;
estimate.

From the den, in which the hare sat until dusk, the malik begins with fatty traces, soon turning into trailing hare traces, sometimes leading directly to feeding, that is, to winter, to a garden, a threshing floor or to a well-worn road. On fats, the hare always feeds in small, very continuous movements, often stopping and sitting down. Having eaten well, he sometimes runs and plays, and here he comes across hounds of hare tracks. Having run, he either again takes up food, or already at dawn he sets off with fat trailing hare tracks to a new lair.

Before choosing a reliable shelter for the day, the hare begins to make loops, that is, round off its course, again crossing its former hare tracks. These loops sometimes occupy large areas, so that at point A it is quite rarely possible to say with certainty, without turning the loops, whether the tracks crossing the hare belong to a convergent malik or another hare passed here. More than two loops are rarely seen. Soon after them, twos and threes begin to occur, that is, doubling or building a track, and the hare tracks are superimposed on one another, so that a skill is needed to distinguish a double track from an ordinary one. After a deuce, the hare usually makes a discount to the side, but after a triple, which is relatively rare, for the most part there are no marks and the hare goes further a considerable distance. Most often, double and triple hare tracks of a hare are seen along roads or along the crests of ravines, where there is almost always little snow, and at the beginning of winter - in hollows, meadows and on freshly frozen streams and rivers.

The length of twos, both in the same malik and in different ones, is very variable and varies from 5 to 150 steps. These hare tracks undoubtedly indicate the proximity of the lair, and if a hare walks a considerable distance after a deuce with a discount, changing discount jumps for trailing hare tracks, then this is already an exceptional case. Threes usually do not reach a significant length and the direction after them does not change and very rarely a discount follows them. The discount is almost always made at right angles to the direction of travel; after several discount jumps, several trailer jumps follow and again the second deuce with discounts. Often hares are limited to two deuces, but there are hare tracks with eight or even more deuces.

Malik has long been called the hare that appeared on the snow during the night all the way, which began from his lair to the place where he fed, and also the way back to the hare. The ability to distinguish hare footprints, very different in character, has no small value, since for a large number of gun hunters tracking hares, most often hares, is the main, and sometimes the only accessible way winter hunting. First of all, it should be noted that tracking the hare is a very difficult task, therefore, they almost always "trail" only hare hares. The wool of the hare, almost no different from the snow cover, the serious intricacy of the passages and the usually very strong place for the lair are the main reasons that allow the hare to go unnoticed in most cases. In addition, tracking a little white hare is tiring, since the white hare extremely confuses his moves, runs into the paths of other white hare, sometimes running in circles, making loops, and confuses the tracks so much that sometimes the most experienced hunter will spend a lot of time looking for him.

Therefore, in places where hare tracks of a hare and a hare are found, it is very important to be able to distinguish them. which succeeds very soon. The hare, which lives in the forest, where the snow is looser than in the field, has wider and rounder paws, or, more correctly, they have widely spread fingers, which is why it leaves prints in the snow that are very similar in outline to a circle; but the hare has a paw and expands less and its trace is more oval, or elliptical. When the snow is not too loose, the prints of individual paw toes will be obtained, but the hare footprints of the hind legs of a hare will be much wider, unlike a white hare. More long, parallel to each other, almost not ahead of each other, the tracks belong to the hind legs, and close in outline to a circle and which go one after the other, in one line - to the front legs.
A hare that sits leaves footprints of a completely different type.: the prints of the front paws are located almost side by side, and the hind legs lose some of their parallelism, and since when the hare sits, it bends its hind legs, then on the trail, except for the legs, it leaves a trace and the entire groove. In addition to this case, that is, when he sits, the trace of the hind legs almost always remains parallel, and when on loose snow you notice traces in which the prints of the hind legs are larger, these traces do not belong to a hare, but to a dog, cat or fox , most likely when they are jumping. It is possible to say the same about the track, in which one of the hind legs is very ahead of the other. The natural run of a hare is big jumps, moreover, the hind legs are carried out almost, and sometimes at the same time, and it also puts the front legs one after the other. Only when he makes very big jumps does the hare also put his front legs together.
The hare track is usually called the end track., since with such medium jumps he moves to fats and returns from them. Fat traces differ in contrast to the terminal ones in that the imprinted paws are close to each other and individual traces merge. They are called fat because hares leave them where they feed, quietly moving from one place to another, often crouching.
Estimated hare footprints from the biggest jumps, which are made at an angle to the first direction of the track. The hare tries to hide its tracks with these tracks. before he thought to lie down. The number of discount jumps is usually equal to one, two, three, rarely four, after which ordinary tracks follow again. Most often, the hare doubles its tracks before the discount. Estimated jumps differ from the end jumps by the gap between the trace and also by the fact that the traces of the front legs are located together. Hares dig a dwelling in the snow, somewhere under the bushes, at the end of their road, hiding, tucking their legs in, putting their ears on their backs, turns its nose in the direction from where it is always possible to wait for the enemy, that is, to its tracks.

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Trailing hares is one of the most fascinating and interesting, and besides, also public winter hunts. It can be successful only when it is produced by powder, that is, after fresh snow has fallen. A hunter without any assistants and dogs has the opportunity to fully test his powers of observation, develop dexterity, caution and patience, and also show knowledge of the habits of the beast.

The hare is on the bed all day and only goes out to eat at night, that is, to feed, so his entire path from the place of lying to the fat places is imprinted on the snow. This track is called by hunters - malik. The success of hunting by powder largely depends on the hunter's ability to recognize very diverse traces of a hare in the snow.

In those places where hare and hare meet, it is very important to be able to distinguish their traces. The hare's paws are wider and rounder, the fingers are spread quite widely, and therefore the footprint of the hare's paws in the snow will be almost round. In the hare, on the contrary, the paw is relatively narrower, the fingers are set close to each other, and therefore gives a more elongated oval footprint.

With the onset of darkness, the hare goes to the place of fattening with its usual gait - short, even jumps, leaving the so-called trailing tracks in the snow. At the place of fattening, the hare moves slowly, leaving fat traces in the snow, differing in that the prints of the hare's paws are very close to each other, and individual traces almost merge.

Having eaten, the hare goes to bed. Before laying low for the day, he resorts to various tricks in order to throw off the trail of his many pursuers. First of all, it begins to wind, that is, round off its path, making a full circle of a more or less correct outline and crossing again its old track. These loops are sometimes quite long. Not limited to one loop, the hare usually doubles or even builds (makes a “two” or “three”, as the hunters say) its track, that is, it passes the same track twice or thrice.

At the same time, the beast so carefully puts its paws on the trail that you need to have a very trained eye to notice it. The length of the "twos" is very unstable and ranges from five to one and a half steps. The length of the "troika" is usually much shorter. The "two" usually ends with a discount (basting) - a huge jump to the side almost at right angles to the original track line. The number of discount jumps usually ranges from one to four, after which the hare switches back to its usual gait.

In most cases, the Rusak makes no more than two or three “twos” in a row, although sometimes their number reaches seven or eight. After the “troika”, the hare almost never folds to the side, but continues to walk, and often for quite a long time, in the same direction. In general, we can say that how much loops and "twos" serve sure sign the fact that the hare is close to the bed, so the “troika” does not give almost any confidence in this.

Having found a hare malik, it is necessary first of all to determine the direction in which the hare went in order to follow the trail, and not the heel of the beast.

You need to follow the trail of the eared one to the side so as not to trample on his prints. If the malik leads the hunter to the place where the hare is fattening, it is necessary, in order to avoid losing valuable time on a short winter day, not to try to understand the strongly tangled and intertwined fat traces, but to go around them, up to the exit trace from the fat places. In most cases, this trail will lead the hunter either to new fat places - and then the same technique should be repeated, or to the loops and “twos” of the hare, definitely indicating that its bed is somewhere nearby.

Sometimes it is possible to consider a brown hare right on the bed and even get it lying down. With whites, this is extremely rare. Noticing where the hare lies, if the bed is not far away, it is necessary, without wasting time, to go to him and, when he jumps up, shoot. If the bed is far away, you should not go straight towards the hare, but somewhat to the side and, only approaching the hare for a sure shot, turn straight towards it. When approaching a hare, one should not look at it closely all the time, as this contributes to the premature jumping of the beast. In relatively open places, the hare in most cases lies with its head against the wind, and therefore it is also necessary to approach it against the wind.

The place of the hare's bed is noticeable from afar, either along the hill of snow, which the animal sketched, digging a hole for itself, or along the dark hole of the hole. But it must be borne in mind that some hares are extremely picky in choosing their bed and, before choosing some place for it and settling down to rest, they rummage in many places.

If the snow is shallow, the hares most often lie down on the uplifts, as well as among the bushes scattered across the field. In deep snow, hare beds are most often found near snow drifts along ruts, reservoirs, hollows, ravines, bushes among fields, near stacks of firewood, fences, hedges, gumens, sheds, etc. In deep snow, white hare almost always lies in strong places forests and only occasionally near stacks of forest mowing, and in early winter - through the bushes near the winter.

Often a hare, especially a hare, takes off on the tracks of other hares. Only an experienced tracker-hunter can figure out this and many other tricks of a hare on the shoulder.

Lives in our country four kinds of rabbits. The white hare inhabits the tundra, forest and forest-steppe zone; hare - the southern half of the European part, the northwestern part of Kazakhstan and certain areas in the south of Western and Central Siberia; tolai hare, or sandstone, - Central Asia, Kazakhstan and Transbaikalia; Manchu - south Far East. Here we will focus only on the first two, the most common types.

The white hare is especially widespread in our country. The length of his body is from 45 to 65 centimeters, weight is from 2.5 to 5.5 kilograms. The ears are relatively short: curved forward, their ends barely reach the tip of the nose. Paws are wide and strongly pubescent. Summer coat is reddish-brown. Dull coloring helps the animal to escape from numerous enemies (it "dissolves" against the background of forest vegetation). In winter, the hare is snow-white, only the tips of its ears remain black.

Belyak- a forest dweller. Only in the tundra and at the southern border of distribution does it live in treeless spaces, and even then it chooses the most protected places there: thickets of shrubs in river valleys, steppe pegs. Solid tracts of tall forest, devoid of grass cover and deciduous undergrowth, are not very attractive to him. Here, hares are rarely found, mainly on the outskirts of swamps, in burnt areas. The largest number hare reaches in places where Various types forest lands are located in a mosaic pattern - on the islands of forest among overgrown clearings and burnt areas, and floodplain forests, thickets along water bodies, on the edges of forest glades, in moist lowlands and other similar places where the herbage develops well and the undergrowth of deciduous species is rich.

In summer, the hare eats succulent feed— various types herbaceous vegetation. At this time, he experiences salt starvation: he gnaws the bones of dead animals, horns shed by deer, visits salt licks - natural salt outlets, where he gnaws on brackish soil. In autumn, it gradually switches to branch forages and feeds on them almost all winter. It eats swampy branches and young shoots of soft hardwoods - willows, aspens, birches, and in more southern habitats - oak, maple, hazel. From thicker branches, hares gnaw the bark. If the wind knocks down the aspen in the forest or in the clearing, the hare gather in this place for a feast. After a while all the bitches fallen tree, covered with coarse light green bark, are gnawed by hares. The branches, to which the hares could not reach, “process” the moose, and soon only the white skeleton of a fallen tree remains in the snow.

In addition to branch food, white hare eat small amounts of dry grass among weeds sticking out from under the snow, choose leaves from haystacks left in forest clearings and in floodplains, or pick up shreds of hay on forest roads, confused during removal.

The hare has several broods per year. In the Arkhangelsk and Vologda regions - two broods per summer, in more than southern regions- three, and in Eastern Siberia, in Yakutia, where the frost-free period is short, - one. The rut takes place in March, and in warm winter even at the end of February. During the rut, males give a voice at night and at dawn, gather several animals together, and fight. The female is sometimes covered by several males.

The hare brings the first brood after 49-51 days of pregnancy: often in the forest there is still snow covered with infusion. Hunters call such early rabbits nastoviks. Newborns weigh 90-130 grams. They are born sighted and covered with hair. On the first day of life, they are able to move, and on the 9-10th day they begin to eat grass. A newborn hare knows how to hide so tightly that you can often step on it.

Shortly after giving birth, the female mates again and brings a second litter in the middle of summer. In the southern part of the Real, the last hares (the third litter) appear already in autumn, in September. They are called deciduous. In years with early cold, there is a large natural mortality in late broods. The number of rabbits in a litter in different habitats is different, on average three to six. It has been noticed that in those places where females bring but three broods, in each of them there are fewer cubs than in areas where a hare brings only PDIN litters.

The number of belyaks changes dramatically over the years. They are prone to a number of diseases, which in years of high abundance cause massive epizootics and high mortality of animals.

The main enemies of the hare are the fox and the lynx. Rabbits are attacked by many birds, even the gray crow. Hare golden eagle and eagle owl are successfully hunted, but these birds are currently so few that their importance as enemies is negligible.

The hare is somewhat larger than the white hare: it weighs four to five, sometimes seven kilograms. His ears are also much longer: bent forward, they go beyond the tip of the nose. In summer, the hare is yellowish-fawn-red, brighter than the hare. In the southern part of the range, its winter coloration does not differ from summer, only the fur becomes thicker and more lush. In the northern part of the range, this hare partially turns white, but its back always remains brown.

Hare- inhabitant of open spaces. Its favorite habitats are virgin steppes, floodplains wide rivers, agricultural coals, small copses and bushes. It rarely enters the depths of coniferous plantations. Sometimes found in close proximity to settlements, where gardens attract him in autumn, and gardens and hay in winter. In summer, a hare eats succulent herbaceous plants, and in winter, various dry herbs and their seeds, goes out to feed on winter, eats the bark and shoots of willow, maple, hawthorn, and penetrating into gardens - apple and pear trees.

The hare breeds more intensively than the hare. He has three litters a year, and in the south of the range in other years even four or five. Pregnancy lasts 45-50 days. The hare brings the first brood in April. In the spring brood there are on average three hares, in the summer there are five. Cubs are born weighing about 100 grams and grow quickly. After two weeks, their weight quadruples and they begin to feed on vegetation.

The hare is less prone to epizootics, especially helminthic invasions, apparently because it lives in open places accessible to the sun, but on the other hand, compared to the hare, it suffers more from predators.

In summer, due to dense vegetation, it is difficult to detect traces of hares. It’s easier to lift the animal itself from the bed or stumble somewhere on a brood of hares, and even then in the thickets you won’t have time to see the flashed animal. In the evening twilight, hares love to run along paths and roads, and if you look closely, you can see the prints of their claws on soft soil. They give out the presence of hares and balls of their droppings.

In winter, when everything is covered with a white veil of snow, patterns of hare tracks can be found both in the forest and in the fields.
Unlike most other animals, hares move only in one gait - a gallop, and the running speed depends on the size of the jump. There are three types of hare heritage: fodder, or fattening, running and ton.

During feeding, the hare moves in very small jumps. Lowers the front paws to the ground, stretching the body, and then, pushing off with both hind legs at the same time, as if pulling them to the front (does not bring the hind legs behind the front ones). Paw prints on the places of fatness are tightly molded to one another. The tracks show that while eating, the hare often sits on its hind legs.

The walking trail of a hare is more or less long jumps, in which the animal brings its hind legs behind its front ones.

Rice. 34. Traces of hares: hare (left) and hare

Rice. 35. Traces of a white hare sitting (left) and running

Op puts them in parallel, and one of the front paws, for greater stability, takes it forward a little. This trace is calm, the soles of the hind legs, as well as on the fat trace, are completely imprinted.

When running fast, especially when the hare is escaping from enemies, he places his hind legs not side by side, but one somewhat in front of the other, as a result of which the prints of all Four paws of the rutting track are stretched in length and lie low in a straight line. With such a gait, the hind legs of an 8-eye do not leave prints of the entire sole (from the claws to the hock), but only one toe, just like the front ones. He runs as if on "socks".

Despite the fact that the hare is larger than the hare, its tracks are smaller. The fact is that the hare - a resident of the forests, Where the snow is more loose, the paws are wider and more pubescent. The narrow paw of the hare is better adapted to fast running. By the way, hunters especially appreciate greyhounds with a narrow, collected, so-called "Russian" paw.

The nature of the heirs of hares is different. The hare moves slowly, in short hops, feeds little by little and at many points. But if the hares find an aspen or its top felled by the wind, they gather in such a place in several individuals, trample the snow tightly here and lull it with droppings. By the middle of winter, white squirrels in their habitats fill a whole network of thorny paths, which their enemies, foxes and lynxes, also like to use.

Rusak moves more briskly, as his hauls are removed from feeding places. The fattening places of the hare are more concentrated and several animals usually gather on them. These hares do not fill trails, since in open places the snow is denser than in the forest, and it is easier to walk on virgin soil.

Both hares are characterized by entanglement of traces before lying down. The hare confuses them especially subtly. In order to throw off the trail of a potential pursuer, he does not go from the place of fattening to the laying place in a direct way. The animal makes “loops”, repeatedly crossing its own track, “bangs”, passing along the old track 20-30 meters in the opposite direction, and “basting” - large jumps to the side. Making a mark, he tries to jump into a bush, a thaw patch, a tussock, a bunch of weeds, to a place where his paw prints are less noticeable. Before lying down, he makes several loops, lashes and sweeps, chooses a lying place in a secluded place and settles with his head to his trail in order to notice the enemy in time and have time to hide unnoticed while he unravels the patterns of his tracks.

Ryas. 36. The path of a hare-hare to lying: - vzvoka; 2 - estimate; 3 - loop; 4 - prone

The white hare also makes loops and sweeps away from its trace, but many times less than the hare. But he climbs into such strong places to lay down that not every predator manages to catch him by surprise.

In the footsteps, you can learn a lot of interesting things about the hare. One winter in the forest on the Onega Peninsula, I read in the footsteps of a small comic scene from the life of this animal. Very tired, I was returning home along a snow-covered forest road.

A hare trail ran along the groove. The hare moved in small leaps, stopping near bushes sticking out from under the snow and tufts of last year's grass. Suddenly in the snow ... a dark failure. This white hare got into the "warmhouse" - an unfrozen swamp. Tonkin's ice could not withstand its weight and broke through. The animal quickly jumped out into the snow, splashed a brown peat slurry over the white shroud, and after such an unexpected bath, quickly rolled forward. Yes, it was not there! Without galloping even fifty meters, he jumped into the wood grouse hole with a run. Apparently, they were both scared.

The oblique swiftly rushed into the thicket, and the suddenly awakened rooster could not even immediately take off. He fell out of the hole, first on one side, then rolled onto the other, and stroked the snow several times with his elastic wings before he rose into the air. This little funny story made me laugh, cheered me up and the road to the house no longer seemed so long and easy.

Hares are of great commercial importance. The skin of a hare is imitated as more expensive furs, and the hair of a hare is the best raw material for making felt. The meat of animals is rich in vitamins and is a valuable food product.

Especially great is the importance of hares as an object of sport hunting. Many sports and hunting farms carry out special biotechnical measures (feeding, arrangement of salt licks, resettlement) aimed at increasing the number of animals.
Shooting of hares is limited by the terms of hunting, and in special hunting farms, in addition, by the rate of production.

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