The Arctic hare (Lepus arcticus) is a small, fur-covered mammal that lives in a cold environment. Like other hares, it has long ears, a short tail, long hind legs and a recycling digestive system. But this hare is also superbly adapted -- both structurally and behaviourally -- to life in the severe conditions of the Far North.

An Arctic hare stops on the distant horizon to look for other hares in Sverdrup Pass on Ellesmere Island (in Nunavut).		An Arctic hare backlit by the low light of the winter sun.
Late winter group of Arctic hares resting at Sverdrup Pass on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut.		A single Arctic hare track in the vast landscape of Sverdrup Pass on Ellesmere Island (in Nunavut).