Valandar, Sorry to be pedantic, (or as I frequently tell my wife, it's not a case of me being pedantic, it's just that I'm usually right) but there is no such thing as hair lip. Hairy lip maybe - which I suffer from - but not hair lip. Hare lip (according to Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1973 edition)is a congenital deformity resulting from failure of certain tissues of the face to join properly during pre-natal development. It is associated in about 50% of cases with a cleft palate. Other references indicate that it occurs in about one in every 1,000 births,in either minor or major form. If the problem only occurs in the lip then there is a high success rate with surgery at 3 months old. With a cleft palate, however, surgery is harder and usually undertaken at about one year. This is not always successful and can result in speech defects later in life. If you ever get the opportunity to examine a hare's upper lip at close quarters (not easy because they run like hell, hence the expression, haring along) you will see that it has a vertical groove or cleft in its centre, and this is the effect after which the human birth disorder is named. I'm not aware of hares actually having a bulgy bit between nose and lip. By the way, I suspect that most hares would not be too happy at being likened to rabbits, and vice versa. How would you like being compared to a gorilla, or a baboon? Or indeed, vice versa? Maz PS. Don't take the last bit too seriously.