🐇European hare
A lebre-comum ou lebre-europeia (Lepus europaeus) é um animal muito conhecido, que se encontra entre as principais espécies cinegéticas. De origem estepária, abunda sobretudo em zonas agrícolas pouco humanizadas. Existe em toda a Europa com exceção da Península Escandinava, parte da Península Ibérica e de algumas ilhas do Mar Mediterrâneo. Ocorre também no Norte de África e na Ásia Ocidental. Ao contrário do coelho, a lebre abriga-se em tocas pouco profundas já que conta com a sua coloração mimética para se dissimular na paisagem. Vive solitariamente, com exceção do período do cio. O cio ocorre de Janeiro a Outubro e as crias já nascem com pelo e aptas a ver. As lebres comuns foram introduzidas na América do Sul por europeus e vivem em campos e dunas, sendo animais noturnos que, ao anoitecer, saem para se alimentarem e acasalar-se. As lebres alimentam-se com brotos de gramas, folhas de amendoim, milho, feijão, alface e, principalmente, raízes de mandioca. As lebres não têm o hábito de dormir em tocas e dormem sob arbustos, sempre viradas para um ponto de saída estratégica em caso de ataque de seus predadores.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2019.
- Body mass
- 3.67 kg
- Body length
- 0.61 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 12 years
Everything we know about the European hare
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass3.67 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 4.17 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Body length0.61 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass14 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan12 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 11 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Generation length2 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity211 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation42 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 42 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Litter sizeabout 2COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 2AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleNocturnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Home range0.31 km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density47 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l3.7 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for European hare yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderLagomorpha
- ›familyLeporidae
- ›genusLepus
- ›speciesLepus europaeus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderRabbits & hares · Lagomorpha
- familyLeporidae
- genusLepus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderEuarchontoglires
- orderRabbits & hares · Lagomorpha
- familyLeporidae
- genusLepus
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