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18-04-2009, 07:05 AM
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| | | Wet hare
Anyone know if hares are able to swim? A friend and I saw one yesterday by the side of a ditch looking very wet indeed. It had been raining but not hard enough to make it as wet as it looked.
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18-04-2009, 07:56 AM
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18-04-2009, 08:46 AM
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Hi WW
Hare are capable of swimmimg however they do not choose to. Hare are very bright creatures and certainly will cross streams to get to the best feeding sites. However the overriding trait of Hare is to escape from danger and when faced with a threat they will run, jump or avoid anything in their way and they will certainly think nothing about crossing a stream.
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18-04-2009, 09:53 AM
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In that splendid book, "The Leaping Hare" by Evans and Thomson, there are contempraneous accounts of hares swimming the one hundred yards across the estuary of the River Suir and across several hundred yards of rough sea water from islands to shore. These hares were frightened animals but there is a doe hare recorded which, in order to attend to the wants of three leverets, swam every night to an island on an artificial lake.
Also. one of Thomsons friends saw a hare swim across a pool in a mountain stream although a short way downstream the crossing was easier. |
18-04-2009, 11:16 AM
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Are there any mammals that cannot swim, I always thought that they could???
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18-04-2009, 11:58 AM
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I recall from the dim and distant past that the only mammal unable to swim is the camel. So much for the Ship of the Desert!
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18-04-2009, 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by The Woodman  I recall from the dim and distant past that the only mammal unable to swim is the camel. So much for the Ship of the Deserrt! | I doubt that the Camels are too bothered 
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18-04-2009, 12:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Wild-Woman A friend and I saw one yesterday by the side of a ditch looking very wet indeed. | Maybe it had had a bad hare day!
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18-04-2009, 12:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Jim Ford Maybe it had had a bad hare day!
Jim | LOL I just knew someone would have to say it
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18-04-2009, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by ron1863 I doubt that the Camels are too bothered | Apparently more people die in the desert from drowning (from flash floods) than through dehydration so maybe the Camel should be bothered
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