Mammals
Rabbits & Hares
Sighting 4603015

Lepus capensis

1 Brown Hare at Lyons, ACT

Lepus capensis at Lyons, ACT - 14 Oct 2024 10:50 AM
Lepus capensis at Lyons, ACT - 14 Oct 2024 10:50 AM
Lepus capensis at Lyons, ACT - 14 Oct 2024 10:50 AM
Lepus capensis at Lyons, ACT - 14 Oct 2024 10:50 AM
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Identification history

Lepus capensis 14 Oct 2024 MatthewFrawley
Oryctolagus cuniculus 14 Oct 2024 CarbonAI
Lepus capensis 14 Oct 2024 Kenp12

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Moving around looking for food. This website keeps changing the name of this animal. It is actually a Brown Hare (Lepus europaeus)

5 comments

Kenp12 wrote:
   14 Oct 2024
Stop changing the name of this Hare!
MatthewFrawley wrote:
   14 Oct 2024
It's now officially a Brown Hare.
DonFletcher wrote:
   14 Oct 2024
Hi @Kenp12 , Nature Mapper is training an Artificial Intelligence (machine learning) program called 'Carbon AI'. Carbon learns from its mistakes. Its identifications of mammals have improved a lot, and it now correctly identifies more than 99% of common species like rabbits and eastern grey kangaroos. However it is impossible for Carbon to correctly identify species it has not encountered before or which are rarely reported. Hares are in that category until we observers have reported at least a few hundred of them. Moderators know Carbon cant be trusted to correctly identify the less common species yet.
DonFletcher wrote:
   14 Oct 2024
Excellent photos @Kenp12
AaronClausen wrote:
   14 Oct 2024
Summed it up perfectly @DonFletcher !

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Sighting information

Additional information

  • Unknown Gender
  • Alive / healthy Animal health

Species information

  • Lepus capensis Scientific name
  • Brown Hare Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Exotic
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 774.8m Recorded at altitude
  • 46 images trained Machine learning

  • Synonyms

    Lepus europaeus

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