How animals prepare for winter
How animals prepare for winter
Due to a significant reduction in food volumes andprolonged cold weather for animals in the forest during the winter is not easy. That is why many of them are beginning to prepare for this period from early autumn, and some even in the summer. And only some wild animals boldly meet the winter without preparation.
Instructions
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Before all, prepare for the cold beginsrodents: chipmunks, mice, ground squirrels, groundhogs, ferrets and others. In the summer they collect stocks of grains and nuts all over the forest and lay their burrows in the storerooms. This allows them to safely survive the winter without sticking out. Almost all winter quarters they spend in hibernation and interrupt this quiet occupation only to refresh themselves. If stocks are abundant, and no predators will disturb them, rodents will easily survive even the most severe frosts.
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Beavers living in families,from the branches near water bodies. Their house they are warmed with moss and mud, and the entrance to it is done under water. Near the house they add their winter livelihoods - twigs of trees. Besides them, beavers feed on the roots of aquatic plants. Proteins also do not hibernate, although during the cold weather they spend quite a lot of time in their hollow that they build inside trees or in the empty nests of birds. For the winter, the protein stores mushrooms, acorns, nuts and hides them at the roots of trees or stumps. And this rodent changes his fur coat from red to gray - for camouflage.
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Pre-arrange their homes and bears. They arrange a den in natural caves, ravines or grooves near the roots of trees, in which they draw branches, grass, moss, and then cover everything with fluffy fir branches. Falling snow serves the bear a good service - it perfectly masks the den and keeps inside it the relative heat. Unlike rodents, this animal does not make food reserves, but with the onset of autumn, it begins to eat a lot to accumulate a large amount of fat for the winter. Then he will be able to sleep peacefully until the spring.
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Hares, foxes and wolves are practically not getting ready forwinter, because they spend it on their feet in search of food. Skew, however, in advance change the fur coat from gray to white, to be less visible in the snow. And the fur of the fox and the wolf retains its color, but at the same time it becomes more dense and fluffy. Cunning foxes use any free burrows to rest or hide from danger, and wolves gather in packs - so it's easier for them to survive in the cold winter.
