Hares can be seen "boxing". This is where hares strike one another with their paws

For a long time it had been thought that this was inter male competition, but closer observation has revealed that it is usually a female hitting a male

either to show that she is not yet quite ready to mate or as a test of his determination

common and brown hares in your garden  introduced by the romans, they eat cabbage, grass, tree bark, lettuce, nests on the ground  called a scrape
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at 45mph not as fast as a Greyhound, but can turn faster

Young hares are known as Leverets they are able to leave their birth place very soon after they have been born
They breed in the first year, and the female generally produces four or five leverets, after a gestation of about thirty days
after being suckled for about three weeks, they are abandoned to their own fate

The brown hare is a common and conspicuous farmland species in Britain, probably introduced by the Romans in ancient times
It is widespread, but is absent from the north west and western Highlands, where is it replaced by the mountain hare
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