Because the leverets are active at birth, elaborate nests are usually not built. |
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They nest in shallow depressions in the tundra, and broods of two to eight leverets are born in late June and are fully grown by early September. |
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Orphaned leverets may be left to die a lingering death from starvation. |
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Young hares are called leverets in English until they are a year old. |
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The leverets stay within the mother's home range until they are old enough to survive on their own. |
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She then leaps away so as not to leave an olfactory trail, and the leverets disperse once more. |
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Female hares can have up to eight baby hares called leverets. |
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Leverets disperse during the day and come together in the evening close to where they were born. |
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