{"id":9640,"date":"2020-05-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/springhare\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T13:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T11:49:10","slug":"springhaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/kruger-national-park-news\/kruger-national-park-animals-guide\/the-springhare\/","title":{"rendered":"Springhaas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Name<\/h2>\n<p>Springhare [Pedetes capensis]\n<h2>Appearance<\/h2>\n<p>The Springhare iactually, contrary to its name, not a hare but a rodent. It has log oval like ears that give the Springhare its name. It has large rear legs and feet with small forearms. It is similar in shape to a kangaroo. It has a brown coloured coat with a white underside. It has red feet and a black tip on its tail.<\/p>\n<h2>Diet<\/h2>\n<p>The Springhare feeds on grass shoots, stems, seeds, leaves and green grass. These animals forage on all fours but will sit on it hind legs and tail while feeding.<\/p>\n<h2>Breeding<\/h2>\n<p>Springhares are non seasonal breeders that give birth after a gestation period of only 77 days to only a single young, three times a year. The young can already see and move after birth. Young reach sexual maturity at 8 months.<\/p>\n<h2>Behaviour<\/h2>\n<p>The Springhare uses its long powerful legs to escape from predators like cheetah and bird of prey. Spring hares are a rare sighting during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/\">Kruger Park Safari<\/a> but it is possible to spot them in the sandy areas of the Park.<\/p>\n<h2>Habitat<\/h2>\n<p>Springhares prefer grassy areas that are sparse with vegetation and sandy soil so they can burrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name Springhare [Pedetes capensis] Appearance The Springhare iactually, contrary to its name, not a hare but a rodent. It has log oval like ears that give the Springhare its name. It has large rear legs and feet with small forearms. It is similar in shape to a kangaroo. It has a brown coloured coat with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kruger-animal-tour-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kurtsafari.com\/nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}