Black-naped Hare, Jammu & Kashmir, India

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A field of buttercups! Black-collared Hare (Lepus nigricollis) in Jammu & Kashmir. Hare are leporids belonging to the genus Lepus. Hares less than one year old are called leverets. Hares are very fast-moving. Hares are adapted to the lack of physical protection, relative to that afforded by a burrow, by being born fully furred and with eyes open. Hares live in simple nests above the ground. Hares are generally larger than rabbits, with longer ears, and have black markings on their fur. This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and