Winter is a difficult time for animals, as severe frosts and harsh conditions for obtaining food make the already difficult life in the forest even more difficult. Some of the animals begin to prepare for this time ahead of time, so that later they can sleep peacefully in their burrows until the first spring days. Others have to endure the cold in the constant search for food.
Instructions
Step 1
It is especially hard for wild boars in winter. And if in mild winters they can still find food for themselves in the form of acorns, roots, bulbs or small rodents, then in severe frosts with deep snow and dank soil, they practically fail. Weakened and emaciated boars become easy prey for wolves. They spend winter nights in search of food, and they try to survive the day in a den, which they arrange in the remaining fallen leaves.
Step 2
But rodents have a much easier time - they spend the whole winter in hibernation in pre-prepared burrows. From time to time they wake up to have a snack on the grains stored for the winter. He sleeps until spring and the bear is in his den, which he makes in a natural ravine or at the roots of trees. He insulates his home with moss, leaves, grass, and then covers it with spruce branches. If a bear has accumulated enough fat for the winter and no one will disturb him, he will tolerate frost and snow quite easily. But if in the fall the bear did not have enough food, in the middle of winter he will wake up and begin to wander through the forest angry and hungry.
Step 3
Squirrels do not hibernate, but they spend a lot of time in their hollow, which they also insulate and prepare for winter. As a rule, they get out only in search of edible supplies made in the fall - acorns, mushrooms and nuts, which are hidden by the roots of trees.
Step 4
Beavers spend the winter in their huts, built right by the water and insulated with silt and moss. They enter them under water, which allows them to defend themselves from possible enemies and quickly get into the reservoir in search of food. And next to the hut, they put their winter food supplies - tree branches.
Step 5
Hares and wolves spend the winter on their feet, constantly looking for food. To make it easier for them to endure the winter, their fur coat becomes thicker and fluffier. And in a hare, it also changes color from gray to white. In winter, the oblique feed on roots, frozen berries or shrub twigs, while wolves hunt hares or wild boars.
Step 6
Foxes hide in any burrows when danger arises, and most of the time they run through the forest in search of rodents. At the beginning of spring, when the time comes to have offspring, they carefully choose their burrow on some hill in order to see the approaching danger from afar.
