Some articles on hare:
... In the fable of The Tortoise and the Hare, the hare is so confident of its speed, and so happy with its progress, that it squanders its lead by wasting time and ignoring the tortoise it ... Eventually, despite the hare's enormous head start, the tortoise wins the race ...
... The hare has given rise to local place names, as they can often be observed in favoured localities ... An example in Scotland is 'Murchland', the Scots word for a hare being 'murchen' ...
... The Tortoise and the Hare is an animated short film released on January 5, 1935 by United Artists, produced by Walt Disney and directed by Wilfred Jackson ... Based on an Aesop's fable of the same name, The Tortoise and the Hare won the 1934 Academy Award for Best Short Subject Cartoons ...
... Hare Hare Yukai" (ハレ晴レユカイ?) – 337 Vocals Aya Hirano (Haruhi Suzumiya), Minori Chihara (Yuki Nagato), and Yuko Goto (Mikuru Asahina) Lyrics Aki Hata Music Tomokazu ...
... The scrub hare, (Lepus saxatilis), is a species of hare found in South Africa, parts of central Africa, and Namibia ... Hares in captivity have been known to survive for six to seven years, while those in the wild usually do not make it past their first year ...
More definitions of "hare":
- (noun): Flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food.
Synonyms: rabbit
- (noun): Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes.
Famous quotes containing the word hare:
“We watched her jug a hare, once, on television, years ago.... The hare had been half rotted, then cremated, then consumed. If there is a god and she is of the rabbit family, then Saskia will be in deep doo- doo on Judgment Day.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does. The hare in its extremity cries like a child. I warn you, mothers, that my sympathies do not always make the usual philanthropic distinctions.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The hare grows old as she plays in the sun
And gazes around her with eyes of brightness;
Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done
She limps along in an aged whiteness....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)