Rabbits and Hares People often confuse rabbits and hares, but they are very different in several ways.
Hares are generally larger, and have longer hind legs and longer ears than rabbits.
When hares are born, they have a full coat of fur and their eyes are open. Their mothers either drop them on the bare ground at birth or into a slight depression in the ground. A young hare is called a leveret. Rabbits, on the other hand, are more compact. Their young, called bunnies, are born hairless and blind.