Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1907-03-25 | Page 7 | Swift-Footed Animals

ANIMALS I Relative Agility of Hares When Running at Ease Interesting figures on o the relative agility of ot hares and rabbits are given In a recent volume of J G C When running at ease he says sas the length of the hares stride is about four feet but under conditions of or fear its leaps extend to ten and twelve while some authors auth rs claim that it can I jump fen ten ditches twenty to feet In width Perpendicularly a hare can Jump onto a wall but buts seems s ms to be nonplussed nonplus ed by one of about six feet The stride of the rabbit is about two feet when necessary it can make leaps of six or ar seven feet hori horl horizontally j About three feet Is the high highest highest est eat that a rabbit can attain attan to even een when hen helped by the asperities of a astone astone astone stone wall Mr tr tells how rab nib rabbits rabbits bits swim when compelled to They swim with the thc head held as high as possible while the hocks of the hind I legs appear above th the element clement at each I stroke The shoulders and front part of the body bod are burled buried beneath the wa water waI water I ter tor while the rump and tail tall are high and dry do doI I S