Due to a significant reduction in food volumes and prolonged cold weather, the animals in the forest have a difficult time during the winter. That is why many of them begin to prepare for this time in early autumn, and some even in summer. And only some wild animals boldly meet the winter without preparation.
Instructions
Step 1
First of all, rodents begin to prepare for the cold: chipmunks, mice, gophers, marmots, ferrets and others. Even in the summer, they collect stocks of grains and nuts throughout the forest and lay them in the pantries of their burrows. This allows them to calmly survive the winter without sticking out. They spend almost all winter quarters in hibernation and interrupt this quiet activity just to refresh themselves. If there are enough reserves, and no predators will disturb them, the rodents will calmly survive even the most severe frosts.
Step 2
Beavers living in families, in advance, set up huts made of branches near water bodies. They insulate their house with moss and silt, and make the entrance to it under water. Near the house, they put their winter food - tree branches. Beavers also feed on the roots of aquatic plants. Squirrels also do not hibernate, although during cold weather they spend quite a lot of time in their hollow, which they build inside trees or in empty nests of birds. For the winter, the squirrel stores mushrooms, acorns, nuts and hides them at the roots of trees or stumps. And this rodent also changes its fur coat from red to gray - for camouflage.
Step 3
The bears also equip their home in advance. They set up a den in natural caves, ravines or depressions at the roots of trees, into which they drag branches, grass, moss, and then cover everything with fluffy spruce branches. The snow that has fallen serves the bear a good service - it perfectly masks the den and retains relative warmth inside it. Unlike rodents, this animal does not store food, however, with the onset of autumn, it begins to eat a lot in order to accumulate a large amount of fat for the winter. Then he can sleep peacefully until spring.
Step 4
Hares, foxes and wolves practically do not prepare for winter, because they spend it on their feet in search of food. Oblique, however, change the fur coat from gray to white in advance in order to be less noticeable in the snow. And the fur of the fox and wolf, although it retains its color, at the same time becomes thicker and fluffier. Sly foxes use any open holes to take a break or hide from danger, and wolves gather in packs - this makes it easier for them to survive in the cold winter season.
