The older leveret – check those ears!


Tiny Leverets


This is the time of year that we don’t expect to be rearing baby animals but Marie, one of our animal carers, is busy caring for three tiny leverets. Hares breed all year round so when the tiny trio arrived we immediately called on Marie as she is always very good with hares and rabbits. Baby hares are very different from rabbits which are born underground, naked and deaf. Leverets are born fully furred with ears and eyes open. They are left just in dips in the ground called forms and the mother will only come to them once a day and drop her milk down and then they will be on their own again. They are sometimes spread around a field in singles to avoid predation but these three were all found together, cold and shivering.


Three balls of fluff 16


Marie already has another young hare that is almost ready to be released. Luckily we have many areas around us that are good habitats for hares and not too much persecution. They are incredibly nervous creatures and when her older one is released, Marie can really pat herself on her back - a very good job done!


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