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Post by gunsbam45 on Jan 10, 2023 22:05:30 GMT -5
Great pics. Looking forward to hopefully some hot pursuit and hare catch pics!
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Post by northerngos on Jan 11, 2023 21:39:59 GMT -5
Great photos! Snowshoes are one of my favorite things to chase. Do you guys ever see the black ones up there?
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Post by bula on Jan 12, 2023 8:52:07 GMT -5
I've seen the snow shoe hares in upstate NY, in there winter white. They've "planted" them in a 2 township wide patch just to my S.W. here in far N.E. Ohio, but I've yet to see one here. Some detail please, black ?
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Post by northerngos on Jan 12, 2023 12:47:10 GMT -5
Oh that’s interesting, I didn’t know they had been introduced (or reintroduced). A couple of things happen with odd colors in snowshoes. In washington there are some individuals in the cascades who never turn white, and whole populations in the Olympic peninsula that are the same. They have a gene from crossing with black tail jackrabbits way back. Some have been newly discovered in southeast alaska that don’t turn white due to a spontaneous mutation. But I have seen one true melanistic black one in the cascades in the winter. I have seen an occasional pic of a melanistic hare back east bagged by hunters too, I thought in New York but couldn’t remember. (I think I remember hearing about some piebald ones in Pennsylvania or somewhere too?)
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