In the course of evolution, the inhabitants of the taiga have developed various adaptations to life in forest areas: some of them facilitate movement through deep snow (for example, wide paws of wolverine, white hare, sable, or long elastic feathers on the fingers of white partridges growing for winter); others help to stay on slippery, icy branches while feeding on trees (for example, horn teeth in the form of a fringe on the sides of the fingers of grouse and grouse).
During the winter feeding period, some animals make food reserves (for example, squirrels, flying squirrels, chipmunks, cedar trees, tits), others fall into winter sleep (bears) or hibernation (chipmunks).
The development of a thick undercoat and dense plumage, as well as subcutaneous fat, play the same role as in tundra animals.
Among other adaptations, the protective color of the plumage, which is in harmony with the color of tree trunks (for example, in grouse, owl sparrow, hawk or birch owl), as well as short rounded wings and a long tail in feathered predators (for example, in hawks), which allow them to successfully maneuver between dense branches, chasing birds, are important in the struggle for existence.
It is difficult to distinguish purely taiga species from the entire diversity of the animal population of the taiga, since most animals and many birds are inhabitants of forests of all types and belong to the fauna of the forest zone in general.
Such animals include brown bear, elk, squirrel, flying squirrel, chipmunk, grouse, capercaillie.
In addition, some taiga animals are widely distributed in a variety of habitats and are found on the territory of other zones, for example, wolf, fox, ermine, white hare, wolverine, great tit, raven, swift.
On the taiga rivers and lakes there are many different geese, ducks, divers and loons, as well as otters, minks, muskrats and beavers.
On the taiga rivers and lakes there are many different geese, ducks, divers and loons, as well as otters, minks, muskrats and beavers.
However, they are associated not so much with the taiga as with reservoirs in general, because they live in other zones.
In the taiga, you can meet animals of mixed and broad leaved forests, which, having found suitable conditions for life in the taiga, have expanded their distribution area at its expense.
So, a forest marten, a forest ferret, a badger, a bat, a shrew, a forest mouse, a black grouse are aliens from the neighboring forest zone.
Only sable, lynx and some birds that nest only in coniferous forests can be attributed to the indigenous taiga animals, namely: woodpeckers (black and three toed), pincers (spruce and pine), tits (Moscovka and grenadier), thrushes (deryaba and songbird), blue nightingale, tap, finch, bullfinch, squint, pipit.
It is interesting that of the waterfowl and near — water birds, the diving duck gogol, which nests in hollows, and two species of waders a large snail and a blackbird, which arrange nests in trees, have adapted to life in the taiga.
There are also gray toad, viviparous lizard, and viper in the taiga.
In summer, mosquitoes, midges, woodlice, horseflies (the so called midge) and many other insects (beetles, butterflies), as well as ticks, spiders appear from invertebrates.
This, of course, does not exhaust the list of taiga animals, of which there are a lot in nature.
In particular, the smallest forest bird wren (weighing up to 10 g) nests in coniferous forests (in thickets of shrubby undergrowth).
Among the inhabitants of the taiga, commercial animals, especially valuable fur bearing animals and wild game, are of great economic importance.
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