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White-tailed Jackrabbit
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| Información de la foto |
Copyright: John Reasbeck (ubc64)
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| Género: Animals |
| Medio: Color |
| Tomada el: 2008-06-04 |
| Categorías: Mammals |
| Cámara: Canon PowerShot A630 |
| Exposición: f/4, 1/500 segundos |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Map: [view] |
| Versión de la foto: Versión original |
| Fecha enviada: 2008-09-13 10:09 |
| Vista: 889 |
| Puntos: 2 |
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| [Normas para las notas] Notas del fotógrafo |
I took this photo of a White-tailed Jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii) just outside a seniors’ lodge in Calgary, Alberta, a Canadian city with a population of about one million people. I was visiting a relative at the lodge. Luckily, I had my old Canon A630 (since replaced by a Canon A650 IS) on my belt, and I was able to quickly roll down the car window and get two shots. I was surprised to see the jackrabbit at a location that is so near to the downtown core (about 1-2 miles away). I was particularly amazed to see how alert the animal looked in my photo. Even though the jackrabbit was about 30 feet away, its eye appeared to be more vivid than the eye of any other creature that I’ve ever photographed at that distance with my little Canon camera.
I found much interesting information about these jackrabbits (they’re actually hares, not rabbits) at the following site:
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Lepus_townsendii.html
I found a Wikipedia article that notes the differences between a hare and a rabbit: "Hares do not bear their young below ground in a burrow as do other leporids, but rather in a shallow depression or flattened nest of grass called a form. Hares are adapted to the lack of physical protection, relative to that afforded by a burrow, by being born fully furred and with eyes open. They are hence able to fend for themselves very quickly after birth — that is to say, they are precocial. By contrast, the related rabbits and cottontail rabbits are altricial, having young that are born blind and hairless." |
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Fuoco perfetto sull'occhio della lepre. Ottimo il senso d'inclinazione del campo che segue quello della schiena dell'animale. Forse un po' sovraesposta.
Roberto
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