Being in the winter in the snow-covered forest, you can think that it became empty. But is not present – among branches of trees it is possible to see the jumping squirrel. Unlike many forest inhabitants, the small animal does not fall into hibernation, he was perfectly prepared for the onset of cold weather.
Instruction
1. The most important for an animal in the winter – to find to itself livelihood. The earth is covered with deep snow cover, and such little small animal as a squirrel, will not manage to break a scab and to reach the frozen berries or nuts which remained since summer. Therefore it is necessary to stock since fall safely to endure cold weather. The squirrel reserves acorns and nuts of a filbert, hiding them in hollows, a faded grass and a moss. Will be useful to it and pine nuts – the clever small animal cleans a cone, gets kernels and leaves them in the secluded place. Having made a hiding place, the squirrel can even cover up tracks of the stay – to correct a grass, to smooth the trampled-down moss. Sometimes the small animal so well hides the ration that cannot find it in the winter.
2. Mushrooms also serve a squirrel in the winter as great food. That they did not deteriorate within long months, the animal dries up them previously, having hanged out on branches of trees or having spread out on hemp. After mushrooms dry, the small animal puts them to the secluded place.
3. Before the onset of cold weather of protein begins to warm the dwelling. She diligently caulks all cracks by means of bunches of a dry grass, moss, wool scraps whom she manages to find. In hard frosts the animal does not go outside, being turned in a kalachik at itself in a hollow. In well prepared dwelling warmly and safely.
4. Preparing for winter, the squirrel fades. It changes the habitual red fur coat for gray. In the winter hair of squirrels becomes more dense therefore to a small animal frosts are not terrible. Besides, the gray fur coat is less noticeable for predators, and it is much simpler to squirrel to hide from sharp-sighted looks, having nestled on a tree.
5. Often people who like these lovely small animals help them to survive in the winter. They establish in habitats of squirrels of a feeding trough where they put dried mushrooms, sunflower seeds and nuts that animals if necessary could be supported. And squirrels with hunting visit free dining rooms.