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How animals prepare for winter. Part 2.

How animals prepare for winter. Part 2:squirrel, badger, beavers, fox, wolf, mouse. Speech exercises and finger theater about how animals prepare for winter.

How animals prepare for winter: part 2

Stories in pictures on the topic “How animals prepare for winter”

Today we continue the topic of how animals prepare for winter. we discussed with you:

Experiments for children“Why is a hare gray in summer and white in winter?”, “Which fur coat is warmer?”
How hare getting ready for winter?
How bear getting ready for winter?
How hedgehog getting ready for winter?
Presentation for looking at pictures of children.
Poems, stories, assignments for children.

How squirrel getting ready for winter?
How beaver getting ready for winter?
How badger getting ready for winter?
How mouse getting ready for winter?
How fox and wolf getting ready for winter?
4 speech exercises for children.
Games are dramatizations.
How to make it quickly and easily finger theater for performances forest conversations and dialogues?
Poems, pictures, stories for children about animals

Wish have an interesting trip into the world of animals and new discoveries!

Squirrel

Almost all children know how a squirrel prepares food for the winter, because all cartoons show how it hangs mushrooms on tree branches and dries them on stumps. She also collects nuts, acorns, and cones. Where does the squirrel hide them? Under stumps, under tree roots, in hollows, in moss.

Squirrels also prepare their homes for winter. A squirrel's house is called a "hollow". But if there is no hollow, then the squirrel builds a nest for itself. This is a ball of twigs and pieces of bark with one entrance. Inside the nest the squirrel puts moss and bird feathers to make it warmer. She plugs the cracks with moss and grass. The squirrel builds its nest very high in the tree so that no one can climb into it.

The squirrel's winter coat is silvery, similar to snow. And in the summer - red. You already read in the first part of our conversation about autumn how to conduct a simple and interesting experiment for kids, showing the child why a squirrel changes its red coat to a silver one. Did your child enjoy guessing?

Belkina drying room. V. Bianchi

The squirrel took one of its round nests in the trees for storage. She has hazelnuts and cones stacked there.

In addition, the squirrel collected mushrooms - boletus and birch mushrooms. She planted them on broken pine branches and dried them for future use. In winter, it will wander through the branches and feed on dried mushrooms.

G. Skrebitsky

Here you go late autumn through the forest among bare, leafless trees. Look, something is darkening on the branches of one of them; It looks like dried leaves.
No, these are not leaves, but dried mushrooms.
Who brought them up the tree? This is the job of a busy squirrel. At the end of summer and autumn, she collects mushrooms - prepares her food for the winter.

During the fall, the mushrooms on the branches will wither and dry up, and they will remain hanging there until one day. winter days the squirrel will not find them and will not eat them.
In addition to mushrooms, the squirrel prepares other food for the winter. She stuffs nuts and acorns into hollows and wood cracks. All this will be useful to her during the winter lack of food.
By winter, squirrels not only store food: they take care of insulating their homes. With the onset of autumn, the busy animals plug the cracks in their nests with withered grass and moss. Every hole is plugged. Well, now everything is ready, we can welcome winter.

Squirrels, chipmunks, hamsters and many other animals store food for winter.

Beaver

Beavers.A. L. Barto
I've been walking since the morning,
I ask everyone:
- What kind of fur does a beaver have?
What kind of fur, tell me?

Is it true that beavers
Erecting mound fortresses
And do they hide beavers there?

And what they say is true,
Why do they have carpets there?
From fragrant herbs and bark?

I asked my mother about the beaver,
But it's time for her to go to work.

I see a janitor in the distance
He sweeps the yard.

Could you tell me:
Where does the beaver live? -
And the janitor told me: - Don’t stand in the dust,
Let's put the conversation aside.

Without looking up from the game,
Playing dominoes
The neighbor laughs: - Where are the beavers?!
I haven't seen them for a long time.

Tell me, would you be so kind as to
Tell me, where do beavers live?

Task for children: Do you know where beavers live? How would you answer this boy's questions?

The beaver is an amazing animal! He is even called the “King of Rodents”! The beaver has a spatula tail, sharp teeth. A beaver can even chew through a tree with its teeth! Beavers can swim, and they have a special coat - it doesn’t get wet in the water! Beavers take care of their coat and groom it carefully. They scratch it with their front paws, teeth and claws of their hind paws. But other beavers help them comb their backs, because they can’t reach their backs themselves! Just like you, your mom probably helps you rub your back with a washcloth when you wash!

The beaver's house is called a "hut". Beavers build a house from branches and twigs. The beaver's house is very strong, because all the branches are held together with clay and silt. You can only enter the hut underwater.

Beavers live in families. In the fall they have a lot to do - they need to prepare the dam for winter, repair it, prepare a lot of branches and stack them near their house - “hut”. This is their “food” for the winter. They store “food” underwater near their home. And in winter they will need a lot of food! After all, beavers do not sleep in winter, and they need to eat! In winter, beavers swim underwater and eat the roots of aquatic plants and their autumn food supplies - stored branches.

Badger

Under a birch tree on the mountain... Timofey Belozerov
Under a birch tree on the mountain
A badger sleeps in its hole.
And the badger's hole
Deep, deep.

The badger is warm and dry,
Caress your ear all day long
The noise of birch branches
Yes, the sniffling of children:

They sleep soundly on the bedding
Boys with mustaches
And they sniffle from satiety
Wet noses...

A branch or twig creaks -
The badger will open his eye slightly.
He will lead with a sensitive ear,
He smiles and falls asleep:

After all, the badger has a hole
Deep...

The badger is also preparing his home for winter. The badger's home is a hole. In the fall, the badger repairs the house, brings dry grass, moss, leaves and prepares a warm and soft bed for the winter. Just as we have a mattress and pillow on our bed to make it soft and comfortable to sleep, so the badger wants to make his bed soft and comfortable.

The badger also stores food for the winter, dries it and hides it in a hole. It stores acorns, seeds, and plant roots.

By winter, the badger falls asleep in its hole.

Badgers. I. Sokolov-Mikitov
Once upon a time there were many badgers in our Russian forests. They usually settled in remote places, near swamps, rivers, and streams. For their burrows, badgers chose high, dry, sandy places that were not flooded. spring waters. Badgers dug deep holes. Above their holes grew tall trees. There were several exits and entrances from the holes. Badgers are very neat and intelligent animals. In winter, they, like hedgehogs and bears, hibernate and emerge from their holes only in the spring.

I remember when I was a child, my father took me to see residential badger holes. In the evening we hid behind tree trunks, and we were able to see how old short-legged badgers went out to hunt, how small badgers played and romped near their holes.

In the forest in the mornings, I had to meet badgers more than once. I watched how a badger carefully made its way near the tree trunks, sniffing the ground, looking for insects, mice, lizards, worms and other meat and plant food. Badgers are not afraid poisonous snakes, catch them and eat them. Badgers do not go far from the hole. They graze and hunt near their underground dwellings, not relying on their short legs. The badger walks quietly on the ground, and it is not always possible to hear his steps.

The badger is a harmless and very useful animal. Unfortunately, there are almost no badgers in our forests now. It is rare that inhabited badger holes remain in the deep forest. The badger is a smart forest animal. He doesn't harm anyone. It is difficult for a badger to get used to captivity, and in zoos during the day badgers usually sleep in their dark kennels.

It is very interesting, having found holes, to follow the life of their inhabitants.

I have never hunted the peace-loving badgers, but sometimes I have found their forest homes. It was rare to see live badgers. It used to be that you were walking from a capercaillie current, and the sun rose over the forest. You stop to sit down on a tree stump and listen and look carefully. You will see a badger carefully making its way near the tree trunks and sniffing every inch of the ground. A badger's paws look like small, strong shovels. In case of danger, a badger can quickly bury itself in the ground. When badgers dig their holes, they scoop out the earth with their front legs and push it out with their back legs. They dig holes quickly, like machines.

If you find live badger holes in the forest, do not touch them, do not destroy them, or kill useful and good-natured animals. The badger has become a very rare animal in our forests. It is not difficult to completely destroy this beast.

Mouse

The mouse prepared its pantry for the winter and filled it with grain. Sometimes mice make their own pantry right in the field and carry grains into it every night. The mouse hole has several entrances, and it contains a "bedroom" and several "storage rooms". In winter, the mouse sleeps only in cold weather, and on other days it needs to eat, which is why it stores so much food! Here's how Vitaly Bianchi writes about it:

Getting ready for winter. V. Bianchi.
The frost is not great, but it doesn’t tell you to yawn: when it hits, it immediately freezes the earth and water with ice. Where will you get food for yourself then? Where will you hide?
In the forest, everyone prepares for winter in their own way.

Those who are supposed to fly away from hunger and cold on wings. Those who remained are in a hurry to fill their pantries, preparing food supplies for future use. Short-tailed field mice carry it around especially diligently. Many of them have dug winter holes for themselves right in the stacks and under the stacks of grain and steal grain every night.
Five or six paths lead to the hole, each path leading to its own entrance. Underground there is a bedroom and several storage rooms.

In winter, voles go to sleep only in the most severe frosts. That's why they stock up on large amounts of bread. In some holes, four to five kilograms of selected grain have already been collected.
Small rodents rob grain fields. We must protect the harvest from them.

Fox and wolf

By the fall the fox has already raised her cubs, so she does not sit in the hole. But if danger threatens, the fox runs to its house and hides. The fox has a hole at the edge of the forest on a hill so that the fox can see the forest from all sides. The fox is very smart, she never runs straight to the hole, first she makes a loop to confuse her tracks, and then hides in the hole.

The fox is a predator; it does not sleep in winter and does not store food for the winter, just like the wolf.

But both the fox and the wolf are preparing their coats for winter. Their fur, like that of all animals, grows and becomes very warm and fluffy so that it is not cold in winter.

Speech exercises on the topic “How do animals prepare for winter?” Playing with words

Game “Where is whose house?” Guess how to continue

Lives in a den...
Can live in a hole...
Lives in a hut...
Lives in a hollow...
Lives under a bush...

If the baby makes a mistake, then you can play a game called “Help the kids find a house.” The little animals got lost and lost their homes. Where are their mothers waiting for them? Where should I take the baby squirrel? Where's the bunny? Where is mama bear waiting for her baby? Where is daddy beaver waiting for the baby beaver? Where should the little badger go? Where's the hedgehog? In the game, the baby will quickly remember who lives where. You can use toys or pictures to play.

"Continue the sentence"

IN winter forest you will never meet...
In the winter forest you can find...
In the fall they change their fur coats...
In autumn the hedgehog...

“Name the animals affectionately.”

Squirrel - squirrel,
fox - ... (chanterelle),
bear - (bear, bear),
hare - ... (bunny, bunny, bunny),
hedgehog - ... (hedgehog).

Game “Let's build a bridge. The longest sentence about autumn"

Take the chips. Any small objects can act as chips: pencils, cones, buttons, shells, pebbles, blocks of building material or designer parts. You can cut out squares from thick colored cardboard. One chip is one word. You lay out one chip and say one word. For example, "hedgehog". The child lays out the second chip and says the second word, adding it to the first: “Runs.” "The hedgehog is running." You place the third chip and say the third word. You can name two words if a preposition is used: “Through the forest. A hedgehog is running through the forest." But every word is one trick! Ask the child: “What word is this? This is the word "by". And this word is “forest”. Together we did it: through the forest.” Next, the child adds his word. For example, "Autumn". The result is the following sentence: “A hedgehog is running through the autumn forest” and you have 5 chips laid out. Continue to expand this offer as much as you can. For example, your final result might look like this: “A spiky, cheerful hedgehog runs through the golden autumn forest and carries dry leaves on its back.” The rule is that one word is used only once in a sentence, so that it doesn’t turn out to be “butter oil” :)

I usually use a game version of this exercise. The children and I “build a bridge” from one bank of the river to the other using our chips.

On old wallpaper we draw two banks across which we need to build a bridge. You can draw “shores” with chalk on the linoleum or lay out strings.
We discuss why this bridge is needed. For example, a kid got lost, he needs to go home, but he cannot swim across the river. If we build a bridge of words, he will cross it. But we need a long bridge, so we need a lot of words!
We build a bridge from words, that is, we make a sentence. And at the same time we get acquainted with the term “sentence”, learn to select beautiful figurative expressions and build complex sentences in your speech!
When the bridge is ready, our hero runs happily across it to his mother.
It is possible to build sentences - bridges with any words and in any game situation: the car needs to drive to the other side, Aibolit needs to go to the sick bear, etc. You can build not a bridge, but a road.

Dialogues are dramatizations on the topic “How animals prepare for winter.” Forest conversation

How to conduct a dialogue between animals in the autumn forest - dramatization with a child

The animals gathered in a forest clearing and began to tell each other about their affairs. “I will spend the winter in a hollow,” said the squirrel. - “And for the winter I stored food for myself - dried mushrooms, collected nuts and acorns.”

“And I will sleep in the den,” the bear said in a deep voice. “Now I need to eat a lot of food so that I can sleep peacefully all winter.” In winter I don't need food. I prepared a den for myself. I will sleep in it in winter.”

Act out this conversation with your child and continue it on behalf of different animals. You can introduce other characters - birds and insects. Let the birds tell you how they are going to fly away to distant lands, and the insects tell you how they hide in cracks and under the bark from the cold and frost. Each character talks about himself, about his autumn affairs, about how he prepared for winter.

For dialogues, you can use toys - a bunny, a fox, a bear, a mouse, a squirrel. You can cut out silhouettes of animals or use pictures. By playing animal dialogue, the child consolidates acquired knowledge about the natural world in an interesting and exciting way. And what is also important is that the child learns to apply the acquired knowledge in life! This is much better and more effective than “tormenting” a child with questions: “How did the hare prepare for winter? Remember, how did the badger prepare for winter? Remember..." The child will remember, and after a few days... he will forget! But he will never forget the information that the child used in the game! After all, he lived and felt it, it was interesting and emotional, it was so bright and exciting! Play and develop your baby in the game! And success will be guaranteed!

Children love to act out such animal dialogues using finger theater. You don’t have to buy or sew or knit a finger theater. You can quickly make it from scrap materials available in every home.

How easy it is to make a finger theater on the topic “How animals prepare for winter”

Draw the animals yourself or print out ready-made pictures and stick each one onto a thin strip of thick cardboard. The width of the strip is approximately 1cm. Length 7-8 cm. You can color the pictures, or you can leave them as they are – black and white. Coloring pictures with colored pencils is very useful for a child. It develops fine motor skills, so you can involve your baby in this matter. After all, preparing toys for your future game is always interesting for a child!
Take a strip of cardboard 3-4 cm wide and about 8-10 cm long. Glue it into a “ring” onto the child’s finger using tape. The exact size of the part depends on the size of the child’s finger - the “ring” should be put on and taken off freely, but should not fall off the finger.
Insert the finished strip of cardboard with an image of an animal glued to it inside the “ring” and put it on your finger. You can change characters by inserting them into the “ring” and taking them out. It turns out to be a finger theater.
In this finger theater, one child can either play the role of one animal or play several roles. Each animal talks about how it prepared for winter.
To conduct a dialogue-game, the baby will need your help. Take on one of the roles, ask questions, suggest new stories and topics for discussion!

Plots for the game - dramatizations with children on the topic

"How animals prepare for winter"

As a basis for such dramatization by children of the dialogue between animals, you can take a folk song.

Shadow-shadow-shadow,
There is a fence above the city,
The animals sat on the fence,
We boasted all day.

For older children 5-7 years old, you can take Nikolai Sladkov’s story as a basis for dramatizing the dialogue of animals. Let the raven ask the animals questions, and they answer him. At first, the mother can take on the role of a raven and ask the animals questions about how they are preparing for winter. Then switch roles. Each time, change the composition of the animals answering Raven's question.

A fairy tale for children about autumn by Nikolai Sladkov

- Forest dwellers! - the wise Raven shouted one morning. — Autumn is at the threshold of the forest, is everyone ready for its arrival?
Like an echo, voices came from the forest:
- Ready, ready, ready...
- But we’ll check it now! - Raven croaked. - First of all, autumn will let the cold into the forest - what will you do?

The animals responded:
- We, squirrels, hares, foxes, will change into winter coats!
- We, badgers, raccoons, will hide in warm holes!
- We, hedgehogs, bats Let's fall into a deep sleep!

The birds responded:
- We, the migratory ones, will fly away to warmer lands!
- We, sedentary people, will put on down padded jackets!

“Secondly,” the Raven shouts, “autumn will begin to rip off the leaves from the trees!”
- Let him rip it off! - the birds responded. - The berries will be more visible!
- Let him rip it off! - the animals responded. - It will be quieter in the forest!
“The third thing,” the Raven continues, “autumn will click the last insects with frost!”

The birds responded:
- And we, blackbirds, will fall on the rowan tree!
- And we, woodpeckers, will begin to peel the cones!
- And we, goldfinches, will get to the weeds!

The animals responded:
- And we will sleep more peacefully without mosquito flies!
“The fourth thing,” the Raven buzzes, “autumn will become boring!” He will catch up with dark clouds, let down tedious rains, and incite dreary winds. The day will be shortened, the sun will be hidden in your bosom!
- Let him pester himself! - the birds and animals responded in unison. - You won’t keep us bored! What do we care about rain and wind when we are in fur coats and down padded jackets! Let's be well-fed - we won't get bored!

The wise Raven wanted to ask something else, but he waved his wing and took off.
He flies, and beneath him is a forest, multi-colored, motley - autumn.
Autumn has already crossed the threshold. But it didn’t scare anyone at all.

You can also use for dramatization a fairy tale about how animals prepare for winter by G. A. Skrebitsky “Everyone in his own way” (riddles, tasks for children, folk traditions, video)

Class. Reading Bianchi's "How Animals Prepare for Winter."

Tasks:

1.Introduce children to the work.

2. To consolidate children’s knowledge about wild animals;

3. Teach children to think logically, pose questions, and make correct conclusions;

4.Develop children’s speech activity, creative imagination, observation, and ingenuity; cultivate an interest in nature.

Material: paintings depicting animals.

Progress of the lesson.

Introductory conversation. Riddles

The teacher makes riddles about wild animals.

A ball of fur was meandering in the forest,
What made the animals laugh.
And you take it and guess
Who made everyone laugh? Certainly, … .
(BUNNY)

There is a mighty beast in the forests,
You, son, believe me!
He eats raspberries and loves honey.
Who will call him for me?
(BEAR)

I once saw in the forest
Dark red beauty.
She jumped along the branches,
Apparently she was looking for cones there.
(SQUIRREL)

My ears on top of my head:
Long, big,
So that the fox can hear
I'm not even quiet.
(HARE)

She is very cunning:
I ate a kolobok in a fairy tale,
He steals chickens and roosters.
Who is ready to name her?
(FOX)

What time of year is it now? Autumn.

Name the signs of autumn. (It’s cold outside, the sun is weak, it rains often, the leaves on the trees turn yellow and fall, people put on warm clothes, birds fly away warm regions, animals are preparing for winter).

Let's remember how animals prepare for winter.

How does a hare prepare for winter? Changes his gray fur coat to a white one.

How does a bear prepare for winter? He goes to bed in the den.

How does a squirrel prepare for winter? Prepares supplies of nuts, mushrooms, berries.

How does a hedgehog prepare for winter?

Emotional gymnastics “Turn around yourself and turn into a beast.”

Children depict animal behavior: an angry, angry wolf, a cowardly bunny, sly fox, alarmed squirrel.

Invite the children to listen to Bianchi's work.

"How animals prepare for winter." - V. BIANCHI

In the forest, everyone prepares for winter in their own way.

Those who could, flew away from hunger and cold on wings. Those who remained are in a hurry to fill their pantries, preparing food supplies for future use.

Short-tailed field mice carry it around especially diligently. Many of them have dug winter holes for themselves right under the stacks of grain and steal grain every night.

Five or six paths lead to the hole, each path leading to its own entrance. Underground there is a bedroom and several storage rooms.

In winter, voles go to sleep only in the most severe frosts.

Belkina drying room.

The squirrel took one of its round nests in the trees for storage. Here she has stacked hazelnuts and cones. In addition, the squirrel collects mushrooms - butterworts and birch mushrooms. She places them on broken branches of pine trees and dries them for future use. In winter, she will wander through the branches of trees and eat dried mushrooms.

They are hiding.

It's getting cold, cold! The water in the pond freezes.

The tailed newt left the pond and entered the forest and hid under the bark of a rotten stump.

Frogs dive and hide in the mud. Snakes burrow under roots and moss.

I'm getting hungry, hungry!

Bats hide in hollows, caves, and attics. They have nothing left to eat; the butterflies, flies, and mosquitoes have disappeared.

The fat badger comes out of his warm and clean hole less and less often.

Ants clog the entrances and exits of their high city. They huddle in heaps in the very depths of it, where it is warmer.

Fish flock in schools in pools and deep underwater holes.

The frost is not great, but it does not tell you to yawn - as soon as winter strikes, it will bind the earth and water with ice. Where will you go then?

Let us briefly describe how animals prepare for winter. Winter time is hard time for animals. It is cold for them and it is difficult to find food, so the animals make supplies for this period.

Who is the first to prepare for winter?

Some of the animals begin training in the summer. The first rodents to prepare are mice, chipmunks, and marmots.

IN summer time They collect nuts and seeds and put them in burrows. Having reserves, they sit in their “dwellings” all winter; most of the time the rodents sleep. Animals wake up to eat.

Bears in winter

Bears are preparing their den for winter. They find ditches, caves and insulate them. To make the “bed” soft, they collect leaves, moss, spruce branches. When snow appears, the animal camouflages its home and stores heat in it.

bear hibernation photo

Bears do not prepare food reserves for the winter. In the fall, they actively eat nuts and fish to accumulate large fat reserves for wintering. Predator in cold period does not sleep, but is in a state of drowsiness. When needed, he leaves the den. It is in winter that a female bear gives birth to offspring.

Preparing squirrels for winter

In the fall, squirrels stock up on seeds, nuts, and acorns for the winter. The diet of this animal species includes mushrooms. Squirrels hang them between tree branches. Dried mushrooms rarely have larvae and nematodes.

The red-haired forest dweller does not hibernate in winter; most of the cold time she is in a hollow, which she builds high in a tree. The squirrel changes its red skin to grayish fur. This camouflage is needed to protect against predators.

How do hedgehogs prepare for winter?

The active cycle of hedgehogs lasts 4-7 months, the duration depends on climatic conditions. The period is conventionally divided into 3 parts: awakening, reproductive time, preparation for winter. In the summer, hedgehogs go without a home; in the fall they begin to build one in order to prepare for hibernation. The awakening of animals in the spring depends on how effectively this period passes.

They settle in deep burrows (about 1.5 m). Hedgehogs do not prepare food; until winter sets in, the animals live off their accumulated fat reserves. Fat accumulates under the skin and in internal organs. In the fall, they eat a lot and become round in appearance, in contrast to the spring, when they become flat from hunger. In winter, they also shed and their hair changes.

Since common (European) hedgehogs live near people, it is worth leaving leaves along the fence to make it easier for the animals to find soft material.

Hares

Snowshoe hares moult for winter and change into winter coats. Gray summer ones are replaced by white fluffy ones. This is an excellent camouflage from predators in the forest.

white hare winter photo

Funny rodents do not hibernate; they spend the entire winter actively, feeding on tree bark, seeds and dead grass covered with snow.

Researchers have not established what kind of holes the hedgehogs use - they dig themselves or find others. Hedgehogs living in captivity willingly spend the winter in artificial burrows.
Squirrels help trees spread over long distances. When collecting acorns, they hide them in the ground and carry them away from the oak trees. They just forget about their “treasures” and cannot find them. Animals also harm trees. Red squirrels North America seeds are the main food pine cone. Rodents immediately eat them or hide them in hollow trees. Such “storages” are very damp, and the seeds cannot germinate. Squirrels are well-fed in winter, and trees have little opportunity to reproduce. Pines have developed a way to combat this behavior of animals. They become coated with a large amount of resin, which creates obstacles for red squirrels. The squirrel knows what it eats. For example, she stores acorns from red and white oak trees differently. Rodents eat the fruits of white oak trees without putting them aside due to their rapid germination. Such an acorn does not have nutritional value. And red oak fruits do not have the ability to germinate before winter; squirrels store them.

You will learn how a badger prepares for winter in this article.

How does a badger prepare for winter?

The badger is a very responsible animal. He begins to prepare for winter in the fall. First of all, he fixes his home, breaks through new passages, and insulates the mink. If during the warm season he has not acquired a place for hibernation, then it doesn’t matter. In just one day, a badger can dig a cozy home for the winter. After the hole has been dug, the animal rakes a large pile of leaves, dry grass and small branches into its hole, makes a soft, comfortable bed from them and goes to sleep for the whole winter. Sometimes a guest, for example a raccoon, spends the winter in a badger hole together with a benevolent owner - to wait out the severe frosts and negative temperatures they are much warmer together. But in winter, a badger does not sleep as soundly as a hedgehog, for example. When the thaw begins, he can often wake up and even crawl out of his cozy hole to bask a little in the sun and warm up.

Also, in addition to arranging a hole, the animal conscientiously fattens several kilograms of fat, which will serve as its source of subsistence during its long winter sleep. It eats mice, lizards, beetles, frogs, wild berries and the fruits are very more. And by the time the badger falls into hibernation, it can often barely move.

Instructions

Rodents are the first to prepare for the cold: mice, marmots, ferrets and others. Even in the summer, they collect grains and nuts throughout the forest and store them in the storerooms of their burrows. This allows them to calmly survive the winter without sticking out. They spend almost the entire winter hut and interrupt this quiet activity only to eat. If there are enough supplies and no predators disturb them, rodents will calmly survive even the most severe frosts.

Beavers living in families build their huts from branches near water bodies in advance. They insulate their house with moss and silt, and make the entrance to it underwater. Near the house they put their winter food - tree branches. In addition to them, beavers root aquatic plants. Squirrels also do not hibernate, although during cold weather they spend quite a lot of time in their nests, which they build inside trees or in empty bird nests. For the winter, the squirrel stores mushrooms, acorns, and nuts and hides them at the roots of trees or stumps. This rodent also changes its coat from red to gray - for camouflage.

They arrange their home in advance and... They set up in natural caves, ravines or depressions at the roots of trees, into which they drag branches, grass, moss, and then cover everything with fluffy spruce branches. The fallen snow serves the bear in good stead - it perfectly camouflages the den and keeps it relatively warm inside. Unlike rodents, this animal does not store food, but with the onset of autumn it begins to eat a lot in order to save up for the winter large number fat Then he can sleep peacefully until spring.

In winter, animals keep warm in different ways. They are warmed by fur, wool, layers of fat that protect the skin and internal organs. Also in winter period the metabolism of animals that do not hibernate becomes more intense, increasing heat production in the body and compensating for heat loss.

Video on the topic

With the onset of winter and the onset of cold weather, life in the forest comes to a standstill. Many animals, in order to save such valuable resources in frosty and hungry times, hibernate. And only in the spring, when the sun begins to warm the earth, the snow melts, and food appears, they wake up.

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Hibernation is a period during which all processes in the animal’s body slow down greatly. The intensity of heartbeat and breathing decreases, temperature and blood pressure drop, metabolic rate decreases, and activity slows down. nervous system. Animals, as a rule, prepare for hibernation - they accumulate fat reserves, look for reliable shelters where they can wait out unfavorable conditions and not be eaten by awake predators.

The most famous animal living in Russia that falls asleep is the brown one. However, his condition cannot be called complete. The body temperature of a person who is asleep is not too different from that of someone who is awake. The animal recovers very quickly. Similarly, badgers, raccoons and raccoon dogs. If necessary, their sleep can be easily interrupted.

Cold-blooded animals such as frogs and snakes go to sleep during the winter. In conditions low temperatures they are unable to maintain the normal functioning of their body. Therefore, they have to wait for spring, when the sun warms the air so much that the temperature becomes acceptable for their life. Winter torpor of amphibians by suspended animation.

It is believed that the birds do not hibernate. Most of them fly away to spend the winter in warmer climes, while the rest subsist on what they can find in snowy forest, or move closer to human habitation. And only the nightjar is able to fall asleep in winter. For this he received the nickname “Dremlyuga”.

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It is difficult for wild animals in winter. With the onset of cold weather, lifestyle forest inhabitants changes significantly. But also in winter months activity in the forest does not stop, although frosts and deep snowdrifts make it difficult to obtain food. It is even more difficult to get through the snow and ice to the water.

Winter life of animals

IN winter time forest animals try to hide from the piercing wind and cold. Some animals use holes or natural shelters for this. Tree dwellers spend the winter in hollows, which they find in the trunks of thick trees. But, for example, he falls into a den to sleep almost all winter, so for him the problem of providing food and water is not pressing.

Both carnivorous and herbivorous animals try to spend less time on open space. But from time to time, hunger still forces animals to leave secluded places and go in search of food. It’s difficult for predators who are forced to overcome obstacles in pursuit of prey. And it can be difficult for small animals to dig through the thick snow to the tasty stems of bushes.

Most often, herbivores are content with the bark and young shoots of plants.

What forest animals drink in winter

When stable snow cover sets in, it becomes increasingly difficult for forest animals to reach water. They find a way out of the situation literally under their feet. To quench their thirst, animals lick or eat snow. This method, of course, cannot be called very convenient, but it helps the animals replenish the lack of fluid in the body.

Some animals only need the moisture that enters the body along with plant and other foods.

The hardest thing is for the wild boar in winter. IN summer time Representatives of this species drink more often and more than other animals. For this reason, wild boars try to stay closer to bodies of water in the summer. The need for water forced them to use the most juicy and liquid-rich foods for food. Even in winter, wild pigs make up for the lack of water by searching for succulent rhizomes under a layer of snow. Along with this food, wild boars, like other animals, actively eat snow.

Fortunately for forest animals, not all bodies of water are covered with a crust of ice in winter. Almost always, animals can find holes or other open places where water flows. Very often, animals make real trails to the places of such watering places, clearly visible in the snow. This feature is often used by hunters who, in search of game, focus on those places in the forest where there is access to open water.

In those forests where hunting is developed, very often gamekeepers and hunters try to take measures to provide animals with water artificially in difficult times. For this purpose, ice holes are made in reservoirs, and drinking bowls are installed in forest areas. They also try to include succulent feed that contains some amount of water in feeding animals.

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