Gillis, E. A. Survival of juvenile hares during a cyclic population increase. Can. J. Zool. 76, 1949–1956 (1998). THE SNOW HARE explores how memories can haunt us throughout our lives. Why does Lena see the little girl and the “bone man” in her final days? Were you surprised by who these characters turned out to be? A snowshoe hairs trail, which takes the hares between feeding and resting places, are well-traveled. These trails are also used by other species, such as squirrels, porcupines, and skunks. Mama’s cantatas slip to the floor. ‘Blessed Mother, this family! Romuś, my darling boy, you really are too close to the draught over there, you know what Doctor Janucek says. I tell you it’s too bad of your father to be away so much when I have my recital season upon me. What about the standards of his own children’s education? Listen to your mama, girls, under no circumstances are you to marry school inspectors, they are no better suited to marriage than travelling peddlers, if I’d have only known when he limped into the convent that…’

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The horn is blown, the tent flaps close, and a juggler runs into the ring with flaming torches, throwing them into a fiery wheel. Lena cups her hands around her mouth and shouts, ‘Keep them up!’ And Ala closes her eyes. At the population peak, snowshoe hares can reach densities of 500 to 600 hares per square kilometer. O'Donoghue, Mark (1994). "Early survival of juvenile snowshoe hares". Ecology. 75 (6): 1582–1592. doi: 10.2307/1939619. JSTOR 1939619. Ims, R. A., Henden, J.-A. & Killengreen, S. T. Collapsing population cycles. Trends Ecol. Evol. 23, 79–86 (2008).

O'Donoghue, Mark (1983). "Seasonal habitat selection by snowshoe hare in eastern Maine". Transactions, Northeast Section of the Wildlife Society. 40: 100–107. This book transports you to another countries and regimes, you’re completely submerged in Lena’s life and while I’ve read that some have not connected with Lena’s character I have completely. She’s strong and forthright woman who dreams of more than society allows of her. Zimova, M., Mills, L. S. & Nowak, J. J. High fitness costs of climate change induced camouflage mismatch in a seasonally colour moulting mammal. Ecol. Lett. 19, 299–307 (2016). O’Donoghue, M., Boutin, S., Krebs, C. & Hofer, E. Numerical responses of coyotes and lynx to the snowshoe hare cycle. Oikos 80, 150–162 (1997).

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Lena's developing friendship with one of the guards is terribly sweet, a complete contrast to the horror they are all living through. Boutin, S., Gilbert, B. S., Krebs, C. J., Sinclair, A. R. E. & Smith, J. N. M. The role of dispersal in the population dynamics of snowshoe hares. Can. J. Zool. 63, 106–115 (1984). The snowshoe hare ( Lepus americanus), also called the varying hare or snowshoe rabbit, is a species of hare found in North America. It has the name "snowshoe" because of the large size of its hind feet. The animal's feet prevent it from sinking into the snow when it hops and walks. Its feet also have fur on the soles to protect it from freezing temperatures. Myers, J. H. Population cycles: generalities, exceptions and remaining mysteries. Proc. R. Soc. B 285, 20172841 (2018).Mills, L. et al. Camouflage mismatch in seasonal coat color due to decreased snow duration. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 110, 7360–7365 (2013). Snowshoe hares eat a variety of herbaceous plants during the summer, including species like vetch, strawberry, fireweed, vetch, lupine, clover bluebell, and some grasses. They also eat many leaves from shrubs. L. a. virginianus (Harlan) – Ontario, Quebec, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania

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It is, truth be told, quite a disappointment to see Ala like this. Because what’s the point of an elder sister if she is not in solidarity with you against the world? She looks at Ala with her bouncing hair and count-crammed eyeballs and once again she can’t understand how, from the same biological starting point, they’ve ended up such ill-matched beings. In this “riveting, heartfelt” novel of love and consequences (Heather Morris, New York Times bestselling author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz), a woman dreams of becoming a doctor until World War II leads her instead into an astonishing love—and a fateful choice. Memories less welcome return, too. Her Polish village, transformed overnight by the Soviets, and the war that doomed her entire family to the frigid work camps of the Siberian tundra. And buried in that blinding snow, amongst the darkness of survival, the most haunting memory of all: that of an extraordinary new love. During the daytime, they rest calmly in sheltered spots called “forms,” under a bush, stump, or log.Hares greatly influence the world around them, including the vegetation, predators, and other herbivores and omnivores that live in the same habitats. Hares browse heavily on vegetation. Browsing affects the growth of plants and stimulates plants to produce secondary compounds that make them unpalatable for hares and other omnivores.