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THE LIVING WORLD
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The Living World is a gentle weekend natural history programme, presented by Lionel Kelleway, which aims to broadcast the best, most intimate encounters with British wildlife.
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"The Living World is the next best thing to being there. Our contributors are skilled naturalists who are able to reveal those fascinating facts about animals and plants that you don't always find in books. It's like having a personal guided tour of the countryside, without needing to leave the house."
Lionel Kelleway
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| Lionel with naturalist Derek Yalden in the Derbyshire Dark Peaks |
Mountain Hares
Lionel and his guide, Derek Yalden, cross hill and dale in the Derbyshire Dark Peaks to track, scout and sneak up on the rare and retreating mountain hare.
But these ice adapted animals are not easy to find. They keep their white winter coat right through until the end of March and they're easily missed on the snow covered uplands.
But if anyone can find them, Derek can, and he and Lionel spot one after another as they run around the hillside - sometimes jumping out from under their feet!
Hares are confused with rabbits, but they are as different as fish and dolphins. Hares don't live in burrows, or in societies - they largely live on their own and scrape a little depression out in the snow to sleep.
Hares have four long legs and compared to rabbits are conspicuously big. Mountain (or Arctic ) hares uniquely grow a snow-white coat in the winter, moulting it for a blue coat (and often called the blue hare) in the summer.
But this is the time of year of the "mad" March hare, for courtship and aggressive fighting between males. It's a time when one of our most prestigiousÌýmammals breaks its cover to get on with the mating game.
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