Remember how it was sung in a well-known children's song: "coward-bunny gray galloped under the Christmas tree?"All would be well, but grayish winter bunnies under the tree to jump well, can not!After the cold season in our region implies a certain training him ...
way, like a hare prepares for winter?As you might guess, it all starts to molt.
It begins in September, lasting only until the moment of loss of the first snow.The hare older, the faster he goes through this process.The old and frail animals molt also delayed, sometimes passing through December.For a long time the old summer fur is in the eye area.
Since Bunny is preparing for the winter thoroughly, only one change of coat is not limited.
Note that Belyakov and hare largely distinguished by their "winter" behavior.They are similar only in the fact that, contrary to popular belief, rabbits do not run all day like scalded and dig very neat hole in the snow.
Rusaki chosen place for everything maturation in the lowlands, closed against the wind.If the snow is deep, they dig burrows, which often exceed the length of two meters.Especially for this the winter on their paws grow thick brush of fur that hares are its saps.
Belyakov not as adept in matters of digging, so dig seekers no longer than one and a half meters.
feature them that this kind of rabbits use their legs wide not only for digging, but for the compaction of snow: unlike hares are not tipped it out, making it very difficult to detect them predators.
But Bunny is preparing for the winter, when it comes to matters of food?There is nothing particularly telling: in contrast to the same long-eared squirrels reserves does not, relying on the "brush" in his legs, which digs the food, but on his teeth that curse gardeners.
Remember when coated with lime trunks of fruit trees?This is just the same for protection against the machinations of birds.
As soon as the snow lies deep - they go to food young shoots of trees.Most readily they eat maple, aspen and fruit trees, for which they do not like gardeners.On birch move only in the case of particularly harsh winters, when nothing is impossible to get.
Since Bunny is preparing for the winter, without creating reserves, it is necessary at this time of difficulty.Metabolism eared at that time accelerated as to maintain the heat takes a lot of energy.
Because of this, the hare has to eat all the time.That is why in the winter "cowardly" hares easily go on contact with a man comes close to his home.Very often they even make their holes in the mop of hay harvested in the summer, providing themselves with food and shelter for the winter.
We do not accidentally write "cowardly" in quotes, because the Hare in winter forest lack of courage does not suffer.Here is one vivid case.
In 1965, a hunter podranil hare, who fled to the marshy lowlands.There's a hungry hawk dived.Eared ran away from him, heading into the open field.
There he was attacked by a fox, a hare ran from which abruptly laid up to the village.But this was not the end of his adventure!There he was attacked by crows, from which he fled, crouching under the barn belonging to the hunter himself, who had been walking along the trail.Of course, to kill so brave eared he did not.
So you know how to prepare for winter hare, and what are the characteristics of his behavior during this period.
