Editing Lagomorpha (section)

=== Birth and early life ===
Many lagomorphs breed several times a year and produce large litters. This is particularly the case in species that live in underground, protective environments, such as burrows. The young of rabbits and pikas (called kits) are born after a short gestation period and the mother can become pregnant again almost immediately after giving birth. The mothers are able to leave these young safely and go off to feed, returning at intervals to feed them with their unusually rich milk. In some species, the mother only visits and feeds the litter once a day but the young grow rapidly and are usually weaned within a month. 

Hare young are called leverets. Adults have a strategy to prevent predators from tracking down their litter by following the adults' scent. They approach and depart from the nesting site in a series of immense bounds, sometimes moving at right angles to their previous direction.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Observer's Book of British Wild Animals |last=Burton |first=Maurice |year=1971 |publisher=Frederick Warne & Co. |isbn=9780723215035 |pages=109–112}}</ref> Each litter of hares have a small number of young and are born after a longer gestation period.<ref name="Britannialagomorph">{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/animal/lagomorph |title=Lagomorph |author=Smith, Andrew T. |encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=2020-09-08}}</ref>