A Manchurian Hare Lepus mandshuricus pauses along a forest road in Heilongjiang, China. Manchurian Hare is a short-eared hare with cinnamon-brown face and flanks and whitish belly. More tied to forests than congeners. In areas where forest has been cleared is replaced by Tolai HareL. tolai. Manchurian Hare occurs in Amur and Ussuri basins in Northeast China and adjacent Russia south to Liaoning and northern Korean Peninsula. Photo: Leveret (juvenile), Qindeli Farms (47.978692, 133.0800940), elev. 100 m (330 ft.), August. (Craig Brelsford)Manchurian Hare can be sympatric with Mountain Hare L. timidus. Latter is also short-eared but is larger than Manchurian Hare and summer pelage has dorsal hairs lighter brown, not rusty brown, as here. (Craig Brelsford)
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