The taiga is the unique place. In it it is possible to meet a huge number of rare animals who managed to adapt to severe climatic conditions and to inhabit enormous coniferous forests. What animals are owners of this nature reserve?
Taiga animals
Such mammals as a musk deer, an elk, a squirrel, a chipmunk, a brown bear, a flying squirrel, a lynx, caress, an odnatra and an ermine are found in a taiga. Elks – some of her most characteristic representatives, live in forests, on coast of lakes, swamps and in low places with young deciduous breeds. They are not afraid of wolves as their huge force and hooves allow to beat off any predator – of course if that does not attack from a back. The musk deer is the smallest forest hoofed animal. She strongly developed canines, and males of a musk deer are known for the sack with the musk which is strongly smelling of natural substance which is widely used in the perfumery industry.
Also the most valuable fur small animal – a sable who chooses as the place of the dwelling the deafest sites of a taiga with small rivers and streams lives in a taiga. The sable also is tied to an impassable cedar stlanik, arranging the nests under his roots. One more small predator of a taiga, a chipmunk, lives in holes under dead wood, stubs and stones. Larger predator, a lynx, in a taiga is the only species of a wild cat who leads a land life and perfectly climbs trees. There lives in a taiga also a glutton having improbable endurance and leading a vagrant life. The flying squirrel resembles an ordinary squirrel superficially, however her skin forms on each side a fur fold which stretches and turns into a certain similarity of the wings allowing a letyaga to plan in a jump.
Life of taiga animals
The severe climate of a taiga considerably complicates life, however its inhabitants adapted to it long ago. Many animals let grow for the winter long dense fur, some of them use snow as the lodging, and an alpine hare, the lynx and a glutton can go on snow thanks to wide paws with a long hard hair to them. To get a forage in a taiga it is quite difficult therefore taiga animals managed to develop own system of storage of food. So, reindeers get a reindeer lichen from under snow, hares gnaw round bark of bushes and trees, and a sable, bears and lynxes eat pine nuts and seeds of coniferous trees. The squirrels living in the territory of a taiga stock up for the winter with food in advance, and badgers and bears fall into hibernation. The chipmunk reserves a forage since fall, and follows in a winter season the example of bears and badgers, eating the stocks in the spring. In the summer taiga inhabitants eat berries and mushrooms, and predators hunt small rodents.