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- Title
A New Study of the Hare (Lepus europaeus) in Barbados.
- Authors
Vandeyar, A.; Suchentrunk, F.; Horrocks, J. A.
- Abstract
The article examines the origin and characteristics of hares in Barbados. Based on a study by C. H. W. Feilden, it is reported that European hares, Lepus europaeus, were shipped to Barbados in 1842 in which they were bred in captivity and escaped after a heavy rain destroyed their enclosure. It notes that by the 1940s, hares became common in the country and that they were abundant in open and grassy areas. Surveys on the hares of Barbados also reveal that part of their diet was a sugar cane trash and stalks left in the fields or cart roads by sugar cane workers. It also mentions that apart from sugar cane trash, hares also eat crops, slips of plants, and the bark of young trees.
- Subjects
BARBADOS; LEPUS; HARES; EUROPEAN hare; ANIMAL behavior; ANIMAL feeding behavior; ANIMAL populations; SUGARCANE as feed; ANIMAL ecology
- Publication
Journal of Barbados Museum & Historical Society, 2010, Vol 56, p141
- ISSN
0005-5891
- Publication type
Article