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the sprinter that boxes its dates and births babies who hit the ground running.
means A long-eared, fast-running mammal resembling a large rabbit, with longer legs and ears, that lives above ground rather than in burrows and bears fully-furred, open-eyed young.
from From Old English 'hara,' tracing back to Proto-Germanic '*hasô' — kin to Dutch 'haas' and German 'Hase.' Many trace it further to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'grey,' the colour of the animal's coat (a possible cousin of Sanskrit 'śaśa' and the same family that may have given us 'hoary'). So the creature may quite literally have been named 'the grey one.'
- top speed
- can bolt at 45 miles per hour
- mad march
- females punch suitors to test their worth
- born ready
- babies arrive furred, eyed, and instantly mobile
- not rabbits
- bigger, faster, and never burrow underground
- eats poop
- redigests droppings to squeeze out more nutrients
march hare — character in lewis carroll's alice's adventures in wonderland (1865), famous for hosting the mad tea party
hare and tortoise — aesop's fable about a racing competition, teaching that slow and steady wins the race