evince (02-20-2018)
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/wil...snowshoe-hares
"Marketa Zimova of North Carolina State University in Raleigh and colleagues tracked the fates of 186 radio-collared snowshoe hares at two sites in Montana over three years. They used that data to calculate the cost of a mismatch between coat color and the background landscape. Their study appears January 21 in Ecology Letters.
Snowshoe hares are all brown in the summer and all white in the winter. The transition between the two colors, though, doesn’t happen overnight: The animals go through some period of being a mix of brown and white and don’t completely match the landscape. Also, the timing of the molt isn’t consistent from hare to hare, so some may stand out more than others. This transition period can be deadly because predators, such as lynx and coyote, can much more easily spot their prey."
The takaway is climate change will do damage varied and unanticipated ways. Who cares, just bunnies, right?
evince (02-20-2018)
why do lib'ruls hate evolution?......obviously rabbits wearing wireless blue tooth were a modified strain doomed to extinction.....
dukkha (02-16-2018)
Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.
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