Fauna steppe differs significantly from the forest fauna.Many steppe animals are forced to live in burrows in ungulates develop the ability to move quickly, there is a tendency to herd behavior.Especially characteristic of the steppe fauna diversity of rodents.It is home to marmots, jerboa, gophers, mice, and other animals of the most numerous group in the steppe.
Among the Eurasian steppe animals there are about 90 different species of mammals, one third of them can not exist in a different environment.One of the main features of hoofed animals - herd.Pets steppe gather in flocks, making it easier to afford protection from predators.Home Remedies ungulates - high speed.In the steppes, where there is no shelter, they have to run faster than your enemies to survive.The saiga can develop the speed to 80 kilometers per hour, the wild ass -up to 70, and the gazelle - to 65. Steppe dwellers can not do without a good stamina - they have to make long marches and long remain without power.
small steppe animals take refuge in their burrows.Here they are hiding from the winter cold and summer heat, stored food supplies and raise offspring.The burrows are always retained a normal temperature and humidity, rodents can carry in their shelters most of the time, rarely come to light.Numerous passages clogged earthen plugs out of the hole covered with sparse grass.
birds living alone on the steppes, are very few.The appearance of the people in this environment, plowed fields and deadly Harvesters - all contributed to the disappearance of many species of steppe birds.Bustard, demoiselle crane, little bustard, partridge - the most common bird Russian steppes.Unfortunately, not all animals steppe Russia could adapt to the new conditions.However, many day steppe predators inhabit our lands until now: golden eagle, buzzard, eagle steppe buzzards, kestrels and falcons falcon - pose a serious threat to small rodents.Often you can find the peace and the birds: larks, wagtails, lapwings, avdotok, red ducks, and many inhabitants of the forest-steppe.
not do without in the steppes and reptiles.Steppe viper prefers to hunt at night and during the day it peacefully basking in the sun.At a meeting with a man trying to escape a viper, but when it come, it instantly bite fangs.Yellow-bellied snake, on the contrary, is very aggressive and likes to attack first, but its bite is completely harmless to humans.Such animals steppe, like lizards, can have a variety of colors.This reptile is common throughout Eurasia, overtaking the number of snakes.
Steppe occupies an incredible number of insects.Wet summer is flying pesky mosquitoes, horseflies and some gadfly.In the desert inhabit asilidae - insects that can win the bees, wasps and beetles horses.This habitat is full of grasshoppers and ants.
steppe Animals have adapted to the dry climate.Eastern Eurasia famous cold winters and hot summers.The average annual temperature in Central Eurasia - from 3 to 7 degrees in the south - to 10. The average July temperature - 20 to 24 degrees and the humidity - about 56-67%, in the driest month of the rate is reduced to 35-49%.It drops about 300-500 millimeters of rain per year, over the summer - 160-180.In spring and late summer is a drought in the plains.In July, the drought is often alternates with large thunderstorms.
Despite the apparent modesty, peace steppes extremely diverse, and people should take care of it, preventing the extinction of many species.Human intervention in the animal world is detrimental to the flora and fauna of this habitat.Many living creatures exist only in the steppes are not met elsewhere in the world.
