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Native to Greenland and northeastern Canada, the Arctic Hare is highly adapted for life in cold, snowy conditions: its limbs and ears are (relatively) short to reduce heat loss through its outer extremities, its winter fur is thick and white to provide insulation and aid it in camouflaging against snow (although in warmer parts of its range it molts into a thinner brown coat that provides it with camouflage against soil and rocks during the summer), its nose is small and covered in fur to limit heat loss when sniffing through snow in search of food and it is capable of building up thick reserves of fat (providing both insulation and sustenance when food is scarce), which may make up as much as 20% of its total mass during the early winter. As is typical for a lagomorph it is herbivorous, and like many arctic herbivores it relies heavily on the leaves of the Arctic Willow for sustenance (with around 95% of its diet consisting of this species’ leaves alone), but is also known to feed on other plants such as Black Crowberries and Purple Saxifrages as well as mosses, lichens, seaweed and, on rare occasions, carrion. Although generally solitary Arctic Hares are sometimes seen gathering in small groups and huddling together for warmth, and when huddling (often curled up into balls to reduce their surface area and minimize heat loss) they can easily be mistaken for clumps of snow. Although most hares do not burrow Arctic Hares may build small underground dens to shelter in during the coldest periods of winter, and during the spring and early summer females that have recently mated will construct small ditch-like shelters within which they raise a litter of 2-8 young, which will be developed enough to have young of their own by the spring of the following year. When fleeing from predators such as Stoats, Arctic Foxes, Canada Lynxes, Snowy Owls and Gyrfalcons, Arctic Hares can reach speeds of up to 40mph (64.4kph.)