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Burke is the name of several places:

• in the United States of America:
  • Burke, South Dakota
  • Burke, Virginia
  • Burke (town), New York
  • Burke (village), New York
  • Burke, Solomon
• in Australia:
  • Shire of Burke, Queensland a Local Government Area
  • Division of Burke has been the name of an Australian Electoral Division twice

The town of Bourke, New South Wales in Australia is pronounced the same.

Burke is also a surname and may refer to

• Arleigh Burke, former Admiral of the United States Navy and Chief of Naval Operations.
• Actress and model, Brooke Burke.
• The Clan Burke or Burke Family a family of Irish origin.
• Don Burke an Australian television personality.
• Edmund Burke, Irish statesman and political philosopher.
• James Burke, British Author and Television producer.
• James Lee Burke, an American author and mystery writer.
• Kenneth Burke, American literary theorist and philosopher.
• The editor of Burke's Peerage and Burke's Landed gentry.
• Raymond Leo Burke,Archbishop of St. Louis
• The Australian explorer Robert O'Hara Burke.
• William Burke, one of the two West Port murderers.

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For other uses, see Hare (disambiguation).

? Hares
A jackrabbit
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Mammalia Order: Lagomorpha Family: Leporidae Genus: Lepus Linnaeus, 1758 Genus: Caprolagus Blyth, 1845 Genus: Pronolagus Lyon, 1904
Species
Many, see text

Hares and jackrabbits belong to family Leporidae, and mostly in genus Lepus. Very young hares are called leverets.

They are very fast moving. The European Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus) can run at speeds of up to 70 km/h (45 mi/h). Hares live solitarily or in pairs.

A common type of hare in arctic North America is the Snowshoe Hare, replaced further south by the Black-tailed Jackrabbit, White-tailed Jackrabbit and other species.

Normally a shy animal, the European Brown Hare changes its behaviour in spring, when hares can be seen in broad daylight chasing one another around meadows; this appears to be competition between males to attain dominance (and hence more access to breeding females). During this spring frenzy, hares can be seen "boxing"; one hare striking another with its paws. For a long time it had been thought that this was more inter-male competition, but closer observation has revealed that it is usually a female hitting a male; either to show that she is not yet quite ready to mate, or as a test of his determination.

Hares do not bear their young below ground in a burrow as do other Leporidae, but rather in a shallow depression or flattened nest of grass called a form. Young hares are adapted to the lack of physical protection offered 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.

The hare's diet is very similar to that of the rabbit.

Contents 1 Classification 2 Folklore and Mythology 2.1 Famous Hares 2.2 The Three Hares

Classification

Order LAGOMORPHA

• Family Leporidae
  • Genus Lepus
    • Antelope Jackrabbit, Lepus alleni
    • Snowshoe Hare, Lepus americanus
    • Japanese Hare, Lepus brachyurus
    • Black-tailed Jackrabbit, Lepus californicus
    • White-sided Jackrabbit, Lepus callotis
    • Cape Hare, Lepus capensis
    • Broom Hare, Lepus castroviejoi
    • Yunnan Hare, Lepus comus
    • Korean Hare, Lepus coreanus
    • Corsican Hare, Lepus corsicanus
    • Savanna Hare, Lepus crawshayi
    • European Hare, Lepus europaeus
    • Ethiopian Hare, Lepus fagani
    • Tehuantepec Jackrabbit, Lepus flavigularis
    • Granada Hare, Lepus granatensis
    • Hainan Hare, Lepus hainanus
    • Black Jackrabbit, Lepus insularis
    • Manchurian Hare, Lepus mandschuricus
    • Indian Hare, Lepus nigricollis
    • Woolly Hare, Lepus oiostolus
    • Alaskan Hare, Lepus othus
    • Burmese Hare, Lepus peguensis
    • Scrub Hare, Lepus saxatilis
    • Chinese Hare, Lepus sinensis
    • Ethiopian Highland Hare, Lepus starcki
    • Mountain Hare, Lepus timidus (including Arctic Hare)
    • Tolai Hare, Lepus tolai
    • White-tailed Jackrabbit, Lepus townsendii
    • African Savanna Hare, Lepus victoriae
    • Malawi Hare, Lepus whytei
    • Yarkand Hare, Lepus yarkandensis
  • Genus Caprolagus
    • Hispid Hare, Caprolagus hispidus
  • Genus Pronolagus
    • Greater Red Rockhare, Pronolagus crassicaudatus
    • Jameson's Red Rockhare, Pronolagus randensis
    • Smith's Red Rockhare, Pronolagus rupestris
  • 8 other genera in family, regarded as rabbits, not hares

Folklore and Mythology

The hare in African folk tales is a trickster: some of the stories about the hare were retold among African slaves in America, and are the basis of the Brer Rabbit stories. The hare appears in English folklore in the saying "as mad as a March hare". The hare and the tortoise is a fable by Jean de La Fontaine.

Many cultures, including the Indian and Japanese, see a hare in the pattern of dark patches in the moon (see Man in the Moon). The constellation Lepus represents a hare.

Famous Hares

• Jack Hare, central character in Kit Williams' treasure hunt book Masquerade
• Bucky O'Hare
• Hare from Monster Rancher
• Hartley Hare from Pipkins
• Mad March Hare from Alice in Wonderland
• Hare Jordan, Bugs Bunny's alter-ego in a Nike advertisement campaign alongside Michael Jordan.
• Two hares travelled with The Animals of Farthing Wood
• The hare in the fable "The Hare And The Tortoise"

The Three Hares

Recent (2004) research has followed the history and migration of a symbolic image of three hares with conjoined ears. In this image, three hares are seen chasing each other in a circle with their heads near its centre. While each of the animals appears to have two ears, only three ears are depicted. The ears form a triangle at the centre of the circle and each is shared by two of the hares. The image has been traced from Christian churches in the English county of Devon right back along the Silk Road to China, via Western and Eastern Europe and the Middle East. It is possible that even before its appearance in China it was actually first depicted in the Middle East before being re-imported centuries later. Its use has been found associated with Christian, Jewish, Islamic and Buddhist sites stretching back to about 600 CE. External link: The Three Hares Project

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