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The Cape hare, Lepus capensis, is widespread in the UAE, although rare in the mountains. The species has a wide geographical range, extending to Southern Africa, and is adapted to survive in highly arid conditions. In the UAE, numbers have increased since the imposition of a national hunting ban in the mid-1970s, and they can now be found close to populated areas, as well as deep in the desert, where they form an important part of the diet of foxes and other small carnivores, as well as of birds like the golden eagle and long-legged buzzard. The local population was formerly all thought to be of the sub-species omanense, but genetic work undertaken by Abu Dhabi's Environmental Research and Wildlife Development Agency, ERWDA, suggests that there may be as many as three separate sub-species present. These await formal scientific description.

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