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[Kareesh Valendar]

I looked around the site and couldn't find anything like this. If there is, please lemme know. Anywho, I haven't given up on my dragon, I'm making this for them to eat.  

Categorization: Animals, Smaller -> Rodent

Overview:
The northern horned hare is part of the rabbit family, but is highly unique due to the deer-like antlers growing between their two long ears. They can be found in Northern Sarvonia in places where it is cold for most of the year. Their fur is cyhalloi snow white with a few being peppered with eophran brown. As with others in the rabbit family, they multiply quickly, thus wherever they are found, the population is usually very high.

Appearance:
The northern horned hare is bigger than its cousin, the southern horned hare. It stands almost as tall as an average human male: 1 ped, 1 fore, and 2 palmspans from the ground to the top of their ears. Their antlers, or horns, are adlemirene brown. The antlers don't grow taller than their ears, but occasionally a buck, a male of the species, has been seen with abnormally long antler.

The eyes of the hare appear to come in two colours: eophran brown or teki red.

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Territory:
As their name implies, the northern horned hare lives primarily in Northern Sarvonia, most notably the Yllon Woods, Cartashian Woods, Mantle Woods, and several other forests in the north. They prefer to stay within the forests, probably due to the fact they use the trees to help shed their antlers.

Habitat/Behavior:
Unlike others in the rabbit family, the horned hare does not make a burrow underneath the ground. Instead, they create small hutches out of the branches of trees and other vegetation. First, a hare digs a small hole into the ground only about 1 fore and 1 palmspan deep. Then they build the hatch around the hole, dragging the limbs of trees and other various vegetation to the desired location with their teeth and making the fit perfect by using their front legs. When completed, these hatches look like small hills within the forest. Often, warrens, or a group of hares living together, will also build tunnels to connect the hutches using the same technique.

Because of their size, the horned hare has very few predators. Due to this fact, the northern horned hare has become more aggressive than their smaller, more docile southern cousins. When their personal area is threatened, the horned hare will utter a high-pitched growl while clacking its teeth together. Its ears will also go flat upon its head. If further provoked, its head will come down and it will attempt to skewer the unfortunate attacker upon its antlers. It has been noted that the male hares are often more eager to fight than the females.



Diet:
Only vegetation is in the hare's diet, although in the far reaches of the north, they can be hard to find. The hares have found often inventive ways to dig for roots under the ground, as well as eating the shoots of young trees.

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[Ta'lia of the Seven Jewels]

LOL, Kareesh, cool idea with those antlers

one ped, one fore.. (no 1, 2, )

Look for the territory of the caracal, it might be fond of your hares.

[Azhira Styralias]

 



Be sure to be more specific in the territory of the Caaehl'heroth peninsula. That narrows down where the Yllon Woods are.

This is a nice animal as it could provide meat for several animals in the area, including the orcs (who aren't animals, but would feed nonetheless).

[Coren FrozenZephyr]

 

  @ Azhira

Their rabbit holes must be rather large! How do they manage to squeeze in through the entrance with those antlers?

[Ta'lia of the Seven Jewels]

Our type has no holes! 

[Coren FrozenZephyr]

Unlike others in the rabbit family, the horned hare does not make a burrow underneath the ground. Instead, they create small hutches out of the branches of trees and other vegetation.

Ah yes!

[Kareesh Valendar]

Whoa, hey! Comments!

@Ta'lia: The picture presented by Azhira shows that these aren't exactly mine. They are based upon the fictional jackalope, which Wikipedai has a great article on.

@Azhira: Yeah, the idea popped into my head that, not only would the orcs use the meat, but perhaps the antlers and fur as well, since they are quite large. I'd love to hear suggestions.

@Coren: I actually found out while doing research on hares that, unlike rabbits, hares don't actually burrow. And, they're not even in the same family. Hares aren't rodents! Go figure...

Thanks for all the comments. I'll have to make a second one eventually for the Southern Horned Hare, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.

Oh! Question! I know this was talked about somewhere before, but do I capitalize the name of the beast throughout the entire entry, or no? Can't remember what was decided....

[Bard Judith]

Brilliant, girl!   I love the jackalope and your hare is just a wonderful nod to that design.   Please tell me the males use their antlers to compete for females AND box on their hindlegs?  And it strikes me that the shed antlers would make wonderful  love potion ingredients, stamina ointment, and lust spell reagents.... as a combination of stag and rabbit I'm sure these animals are infamous for, um, virility.

[Athviaro Shyu-eck-Silfayr]

You capitalise the name of the subject of the entry throughout but not the name of any other things - eg., if you have a predator, don't use capitals - except those you would always capitalise -eg., Northern Sarvonia.

Ath

[Seeker]

Great idea Kareesh.    I think I saw a Jackalope or two myself during my time in Colorado. 

Even though this is obviously patterned after a funny urban legend,  I think it is a great addition to Santharia.  I had the same feeling as Bard that these antlers must be there for a reason.  I too thought they must be used by the males for fighting. However use your creativity perhaps there are other uses for those antlers by the animals themslves and by those who hunt it.

[Kareesh Valendar]

I did have the idea of them using them to fight during mating season, as well as having the northern variety more aggressive and using them against actual threats (mentioned in the Habitat/Behavior section).

Haven't forgotten about this guy. Just been really busy and it's looking like I won't get much done the next couple of weeks, but I still have some notes jotted down and in the back of my head.

[Artimidor Federkiel]

Hope we can make some progress with this one eventually, Kareesh, as the picture of our little fellow is already complete by now thanks to Seeker as part of the Grinch illustration (see here)!

[Kareesh Valendar]

Looks like now I have to finish this one.

My busy season is over, but work has been crazy. Our regional VP is coming for a visit and since our manager has been at a conference for the past week, it's been me and one other person pretty much running the store. Craaaaaazy. Also doesn't help matters that I'm 14 weeks preggers.

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