Difficult it is necessary wild animals in the winter. With the onset of cold weather the way of life of forest inhabitants significantly changes. But also in winter months the activity in the forest does not stop though frosts and deep snowdrifts complicate getting of food. It is even more difficult to reach through snow and ice water.
Winter life of animals
In winter time the forest animals try to hide from the penetrating wind and cold. Some animals use for this purpose holes or natural shelters. Wood inhabitants settle on a wintering in hollows which find in trunks of thick trees. And here the bear, for example, almost for all winter is filled up to sleep in a den therefore for him the problem of providing with a forage and water is not pressing.
Both predatory, and herbivores try to spend less time on open space. But from time to time hunger nevertheless forces animals to leave secluded places and to move off in searches of livelihood. Difficult it is necessary predators which are forced to overcome snowdrifts in a pursuit of production. And a small animal difficult happens to get to the bottom through thickness of snow of tasty stalks of bushes.
Most often herbivorous are content with bark and young sprouts of plants.
What forest animals drink in the winter
When steady snow cover is established, it becomes more difficult to forest animal to reach water. They find a way out in literal sense of this word underfoot. To satisfy thirst, animals lick or eat snow. Of course, you will not call such way very convenient, but it helps animals to fill a lack of liquid of an organism.
Some animal only that moisture which comes to an organism together with vegetable and other food suffices.
Most difficult it is necessary a boar in the winter. In summertime the representatives of this look drink more often and more than other animals. Boars for this reason try to keep closer to reservoirs in the summer. The need for water forced them to use in food the most juicy and forages rich with liquid. Even in winter time the wild pigs compensate for the water deficiency, finding juicy rhizomes under a snow layer. Together with such forage boars, it is similar to other animals, actively eat snow. Fortunately for forest animals, not all reservoirs in winter time crust ice. Almost always animals can find ice-holes or other open places where water flows. Very often to places of such watering place the animals lay the real tracks well visible on snow. Hunters who in search of a game are guided by those places in the forest where there is an access to open water quite often use this sign. In those forests where the hunting economy is developed, very often huntsmen and hunters try to take measures in order that in times, hard for life, to provide animals with water in the artificial way. For this purpose on reservoirs make ice-holes, and in forests establish drinking bowls. Also try to include juicy forages which comprise some amount of water in fertilizing of animals.