Though hares and rabbits are closely related, there are some differences that show them apart:

 

Rabbits are smaller than the hares in size; rabbits look rounder and shorter, and furrier.

Hares have much longer ears and longer and stronger back legs than those of the rabbits.

 

Hares live and give birth to their young mostly in shallow grass-lined depressions on the ground, called ‘nests’, whereas the rabbits live and give birth to their young in holes under ground, called ‘burrows’.

 

Hare babies are born with eyes open, and with complete hair,, and go about their business in a few days after birth, but the rabbit babies are born blind and naked, and need their mother’s care for some weeks.

Hares are wild, but the rabbits are domesticated!