Spring cares forest animals

In March of elk antlers on the ground dropped new ones appear. They are warm to the touch, covered with soft fur, are composed of cartilage and are permeated by a dense network of blood vessels. If you cut a horn, it implies blood. Antlers are growing rapidly and the end of April already harden. Change is happening and horns of reindeer. In the northern forests of Vazhenkov (female deer) are beginning to calve. Early spring - the time of reproduction of many other mammals. In late March or early April will be born first leverets in hares. Hares are prolific. They toss babies three times and even four a year. In the second litter of three leverets more often, in the first and late (before winter) - no more than two, and then one by one. For the year, each doe-hare is born from 10 to 12 leverets. But only few of them survive until next year when they become as adults and able to reproduce. Thousands of enemies guard them from all sides. Weasels, polecats, martens, foxes and wolves, ravens, hawks, even domestic cats are not averse to profiting tender meat zaychonka. Leverets first litter often die in pashas band from the cold. They are born too early for our climate. In this they see proof that the hare - migrants from more southern areas and had not yet fully adapted to new conditions. Leverets born born sighted and very well developed. Their share immediately falls quite a few difficulties. After all, the mother stays with them a few days and then goes away, returning only briefly to feed them their milk. A month later, she did throw them, giving them live, eat and escape from their enemies as they please. Whites have a mother cares for leverets even less. In April of adult rabbits spring molt in full swing - a long winter coat comes out, the color becomes darker fur. Sometimes in a pile of brushwood suddenly noticed a tuft of white wool-like lump of cotton wool. This hare had left her there, pushing between branches. More concerned about posterity marten. Children they are born in March or early April (three or four). The female prepares for them a warm and soft surface in the hollows of old trees. Weasel protect them, bring them food and when no longer feed the milk, still walks with them, climbing trees, jumping from branch to branch and can not deviate far from himself. Compiled couples have a ferret, which at this time is very playful and spirited. In the middle, the end of March or early April it is time to first litter of squirrels. She is born directly from 3 to 9 small blind squirrels.