Hare – the representative herbivorous, the rodent widespread on all territory of the country. In the childhood show to children pictures with the image of a small animal with a gray hair which he carries in the summer, and white – winter option. On it the information about what busy a hare in the winter, at many comes to an end.
Instruction
1. Animals differently have cold season. Someone, for example, a bear to save resources, lays down in hibernation and wakes up only in the spring when snow descends, air will become warmer, and it will be easier to find food. Other animals, for example, of a squirrel, stock for the winter. The hare does not undertake either that, or another.
2. With the onset of cold weather the hare fades. He changes habitual gray wool for a white fur coat. Now it will be not so simple to numerous enemies of a rodent to notice the production. For convenience of movement on snow and ice also small pillows of paws of a small animal become covered with wool. The sweat serving as a peculiar lubricant begins to be emitted for them.
3. Stocks for the winter the hares prefer to get over closer to human housing. There they will be able to regale on hay or bark of fruit trees.
4. In the winter the hare prefers to leave closer on search of livelihood to twilight. In the afternoon his white fur coat on snow can be noticeable to sharp-sighted predators, at night it is trapped already by other animals. When begins to get dark, the rodent feels the most protected. In the afternoon he spends time near the mink, ready in case of danger instantly in it to disappear.
5. Hares do not warm the holes for the winter in any way. These little small animals possess dense wool therefore do not freeze in the shelters. The main difficulty for a rodent nevertheless is made in the winter by search of food.
6. In the spring when snow at last thaws, and it becomes warm, also the shape of a hare changes. It fades again, throwing off the snow-white fur coat, and acquires habitual gray wool which does it less noticeable in the summer.