For centuries, cold weather brings some adjustments in the animate and inanimate nature.In many regions of the world is accompanied by the establishment of cold weather and snowfall is quite low air temperatures.If people winter season - a perfectly natural phenomenon, tolerance and expected, for many animals is a real test of survival, requiring them to high skill and some training.Fauna in winter you can without exaggeration be called Dangerous race: retain their positions only the strongest.
Winter "test of strength»
Mother Nature itself defines how and when "to check the strength" of their children.And all because the winters and animals for centuries are complex relationships with each other.But as time passed, the era changed several times each other, and the evolution of animal life dot the «i»: many representatives of fauna during this period have adapted to survive in the harsh climate.For example, while in some animals shedding occurs, during which they shed their "summer" fur and acquire "winter", the other animals are preparing for the upcoming cold weather, the stock of "food" and building refuge for the winter.
Winter dream
Animal Life in the winter - it's a real struggle for survival!Here are ways to fight this all on your own.For example, badgers, bears and raccoon dogs in the summer trying to accumulate as much fat, thanks to which they will be able to survive the severe cold.Accumulate enough fat reserves, these animals will only be able to if the year was favorable and yields.Before the onset of cold weather they prepare holes (as badgers), or den (like bears) and go to bed, falling into a winter sleep.By the way, these animals sleep very sensitively.There were times when hunters do not even have time to get to the bear's den, like a beast in a dream and heard them running away from there.
you want to survive the winter?Eat bark!
What do you think, what animal feeding winter bark of trees?Of course, herbivore!And it is not one.Almost all the herbivorous animals to eat cold just bark because they have nothing better to eat.In the winter forests of Russia use its predominantly rabbits.It is worth noting that their winter feeding is very monotonous: twigs and bark of young trees (and shrubs).In severe frosts rabbits often leave the forest in search of food and settle in the gardens nearby.That's why gardeners recommended trample down the snow next to the young fruit trees, their trunks zamatyvaya.This will protect the culture from the raids hares.
What animal feeds on the bark of trees in winter, except for birds?This moose.But, unlike the birds, they do not ruin the gardens and orchards.They prefer to feed in the coniferous and mixed forests.Most of these animals devour the bark of aspen, birch, willow, alder, rowan.Love moose and thin ends of the young branches, and even shoots of pine trees.Interestingly, these shoots are eaten with green needles.Cora moose skinned using his long teeth.Often severe cold bark on trees greatly freezes, and the animals have to work hard: they have to scrape it.Sometimes this leads to injury of soft lips or tooth loss.
Who else is eating tree bark in the winter?
addition hares and moose eat young tree bark in the winter like beavers.By the way, this is not surprising.The fact is that in general the whole life of beavers associated with trees.From the branches and bark of these rodents do to themselves a kind of stocks for the winter.This happens at the bottom of those or other bodies of water, because that is where wood "treat" as much as possible retain their nutritional properties to the February.Beavers live in families and build in the water so called lodges - permanent dwellings.To their houses is not washed off the course, rodents at times reinforce the dam.If the feed stocks for one reason or another winter begin faileth, the hungry beavers may covet, and on its own dam.But it is rare, because these animals are harvested in the winter up to 70 cubic meters of wood per family!
Predators - in herbivores!
worth noting that the moose, hares and beavers - is not the only answer to the question: "Which animal feeds on the bark of trees in the winter?" The above-mentioned animals are rather leaders of eating tree bark.Besides these, one can recall the wild boars, which are also not averse to bite trees.Moreover, even some eating bark canines.It all depends on the condition of the animal in the winter.Sometimes even the most ardent carnivores can not find a more tolerable for food than bark.It is known that wolves are shredders for the wounded and sick animals are scavengers winter.But in a particularly unfavorable period they turn into "herbivores": in order to survive, they have to bite bumps to break the frozen berries in the snow and, of course, strip off the bark from the trees.
Someone has to go
Although some animal feed in the winter bark of trees, and some - becomes dormant, some representatives of the world fauna survive harsh cold weather due to natural causes.When predators go hunting, the moose, hares and other herbivores chance to survive the winter, unfortunately, are significantly reduced.And because every creature in nature - a link in the food chain, and the herbivores are the best food for the predators in the winter.Here the presence of bark is little that decides.That he was so harsh - this is natural selection.
