Lepus

"Hermes placed the hare in the sky because of its swiftness, Eratosthenes tells us. Both Eratosthenes and Hyginus referred to the remarkable fertility of hares, as attested to by Aristotle in his Historia Animalium: ‘Hares breed and bear at all seasons, superfoetate (i.e. conceive again) during pregnancy and bear young every month. They do not give birth to their young all at once, but bring them forth at intervals."’ Ian Ridpath