Summary of a lesson on familiarization with the outside world Topic: Wild animals in spring. Wild animals in spring Changes in the lives of animals in autumn

• show changes in the lives of animals with the arrival of spring,
• trace the connections between living and inanimate nature,
• cultivate a love for nature, careful attitude to its inhabitants.

During the classes

1. Immersion in the topic.

What time of year is this poem about? Why?

The snow has melted among the fields,
A stream runs downhill,
And the grass breaks through.
The violets bloomed in the forest,
And dressed in bright green
All bushes and trees.

Name the signs of the onset of spring in inanimate nature.

(increase in temperature, i.e. increase in the amount of heat)

Why has it become warmer? (the sun rose higher above the horizon)

Do changes occur in the lives of wild animals with the onset of spring?

What do you know about this?

Want to know even more?

Let's dedicate our lesson to this.

Formulate the topic of our lesson.

What goal do we set for ourselves for this lesson?

2. Dictionary.

What changes in the life of wild animals occur with the onset of warmer weather?

What is shedding? (children's hypothetical answers)

Teacher: Molting is an adaptation to environment, preparation for the hot season. Animals exchange their warm fur coats for thinner, shorter and less warm coats. Some animals change the color of their skin during the process of molting.

What animals are these? (hare, squirrel, arctic fox)

Why do their colors change? (the ability to be unnoticed by enemies, i.e. this is an adaptation to the environment)

3. Animals that hibernate.

- Animals differently welcome spring. How? Let's listen.

(children act out a scene)

Girl: Misha, tell me how you almost slept through spring!

Without worries and without anxiety
I slept in a warm den.
Slept all winter until spring
And, of course, I had dreams.

Suddenly the clubfoot woke up.
He hears a drip.

What a disaster!
I groped in the dark with my paw
And he jumped up - there was water all around!

Girl: The bear hurried outside

Bear: It's flooding! No time for sleep!

Girl: he got out and saw:

Bear: Puddles! Snow is melting! Spring came!

What changed in the bear's life with the arrival of spring? (he awakens from hibernation, leaves the den)

What animals are still waking up from hibernation? (hedgehog, badger, chipmunk)

Why do you think they are awakening? (children's answers)

Teacher: It turns out that the body has a special clock that keeps track of time regardless of external conditions. If you put such an animal in constant darkness, the internal clock will still show when it is day and when it is night. They also show the time of year, although nothing has changed around the hole. According to these hours, winter “sleepers” wake up in holes and dens. The bear wakes up in March and from that time on does not sleep, but dozes slightly, waiting for suitable weather to leave the den. The badger, having also woken up early, often runs out to see the first thaw. He is “easy on his feet”, and he has reserves for the spring. And if winter returns, the badger can still sleep.

4. Vegetable and animal world in the spring.

Does it change vegetable world with the onset of warm weather? How? (grass, flowers, leaves appear on trees)

What are plants for some animals? (food)

Different animals eat differently.

What are the names of animals that eat fruits, seeds, branches and leaves of plants?

(these are herbivores - word on the board)

What are the names of animals that feed on other animals, their fellow animals?

(these are predators or carnivores - the word on the board) Predators are also called animals.

What are the names of animals that eat both plant and animal food?

(these are omnivores - the word on the board)

Work in groups.

Each group is given pictures of different animals. It could be a squirrel, hare, mouse, fox, elk, wolf, bear, lynx, etc.

1) Distribute these animals into groups: herbivores, predators, omnivores.

(work check)

2) Make different food chains. (impossible)

Why is it impossible to create food chains? (no link – plants)

Add the necessary link and create food chains.

(work check)

5. The birth of new offspring.

What important event occurs in animals in the spring? (birth of cubs)

Why in the spring? (in spring, the comfort of the living environment increases: it becomes warmer, and most importantly, there is a lot of food)

The food for different animals is different, its abundance occurs in different terms, so not all animals begin to reproduce at the same time.

Which group of animals give birth to their babies earlier?

(in herbivores)

Why? (unlimited amount of food, food appears very early)

As scientists have noted, the number of cubs born depends on the animal’s body size. The smaller the animal, the more cubs it has, because... The duration of development of the cubs varies.

Name the smallest animal you have worked with in a group (mouse).

Teacher: Mice and voles are very fertile. Newborns develop quickly: 20 days pass from birth to leaving their parents. Over the spring and summer, one mouse can give birth to about 30 voles.

Larger animals (chipmunks, squirrels, hares, hedgehogs) raise their young longer: 1.5 - 2 months. During the season, 10-15 fewer cubs are born than voles.

Listen to what they tell you about your birth Squirrel, Hedgehog, Little Hare.

(children in masks and hats act out a skit)

B.: Oh, hedgehog, how prickly you are!

E.: Yes, my fur coat is prickly. But, having such a fur coat, I’m not afraid of anyone. If danger appears, I’ll curl up in a ball, try touching me, you’ll immediately get a thousand injections.

B.: Were you also born with needles?

E.: Hedgehogs are born without needles and blind. On our pink body we only have a lot of tubercles. Needles appear in their place after a few hours. At first they are soft and light, but gradually harden and darken. My needles grow very quickly.

B.: And I, too, was born naked and blind. But in our hollow I was not cold, because my caring mother warmed me and wrapped me in soft bedding.

Z.: I don’t remember my mother! And I don't have a home!

B.: How is that? Why?

Z.: I was born right on earth, immediately sighted, covered with fur. Mom fed me milk, left me under a bush and ran away.

E.: And you didn’t feel like eating?

Z.: No, my mother’s milk is nutritious and fatty, so I’m not hungry for 3-4 days.

B.: What about the next days?

Z.: And when I want to eat, I begin to move, leaving a fragrant trace of my paws. Any hare finds me along this trail and feeds me milk. And again for 3-4 days. And when I grow up, I start eating grass.

What new have you learned about the birth and first days of life of animals?

How is a hedgehog born?

Why is the baby squirrel not cold in the hollow?

Why doesn't the little bunny know his mother?

Teacher: By leaving the newborn rabbits, the hare thereby shows care for them. An abandoned hare has no smell, it sits motionless, has good protective coloring, and no predator can smell it even at close range.

But how do larger animals – predators – raise their young? The time they raise their cubs increases to 1 year, the number of cubs is from 4-6.

The wolf and she-wolf raise their cubs. Wolf cubs remain under the care of their parents in their den for a very long time. At 1.5 - 2 months they just stop sucking mother's milk, and parents begin to accustom them to regular food. Wolf cubs are first fed regurgitated food. Then they begin to bring killed prey and help the cubs tear it apart. Closer to autumn, they are brought half-dead prey and taught to kill it. In the fall, young people learn to hunt under the guidance of their parents. Wolves accompany their children all winter, and in the spring they begin an independent life (the story is accompanied by a showing of the painting “Wolves in Spring”).

Thus, the larger the predators, the fewer offspring they have, because their upbringing time is a whole year (remember small animals, for which this time is much shorter)

What is the largest animal in our region? (bear)

Listen to how a bear raises its offspring.

(student’s story accompanied by a photograph of a bear or a painting)

The bear takes the longest to raise its cubs. In the second half of February, the female bear gives birth to small cubs, the size of a mitten, weighing only 500 g. They are blind and naked. The bear keeps them warm on her belly among her fur, warming them with her breath. She feeds them with her milk, but they do not grow, since the bear has little milk, because the bear does not eat anything in winter. Having left the den, the cubs begin to grow quickly. In the autumn they go back to the den with their mother and only by the new autumn they leave the family. Thus, bears raise their children for 1.5 - 2 years.

In addition to the parents, last year’s babysitters are also involved in raising the babies of some animals. In a bear family, such a nanny is called a pestun; among wolves, it is called a pereyarok (young wolf).

All animals feed their young with milk, which is why they are also called mammals.

All parents take care of their young. How? (protected from enemies, fed, taught to find food, escape from enemies, hunt)

Why are they doing that? (prepare cubs for adulthood)

Teacher: In case of danger for the cubs, mothers resort to various tricks. The fox tries to take them away from her home. If people have been near the hole, they drag the children in their teeth to a safe place. When a man appears, the hare takes him away from the bunny, pretending to be wounded, sick, or trying or trying to attract attention to herself by banging her paws on the ground.

6. Forest in spring.

Teacher: In spring, the forest is filled with magical sounds: birdsong, murmuring streams, buzzing, croaking - all this is wonderful music. But sometimes a person adds “his own” to this music - a loud scream, a tape recorder or transistor turned on at full power. This noise negatively affects the inhabitants of the forest. So, bumblebees and bees cannot fly into the air from a loud tape recorder or from a loud scream. Birds and animals will leave their nests and holes forever from such entertainment. This is especially bad in the spring. Why? It turns out that plants also react negatively to loud noise - they slow down their growth.

So how should we behave in the forest in spring? (listen to nature, observe, enjoy the beauty, but don’t make noise)

Listen to a story about a hedgehog.

(reading a poem by a student)

And the hedgehog ran away at night.
Nobody offended him.
He was sad already in the morning,
He was sad yesterday.
What was he, stupid, yearning for?
Nobody pestered him
We loved him so much
And ironed and washed,
But he curled up and trembled,
And then he took it and ran away.
Spiders scurried in the grass,
Crickets chirped softly.
WITH native nature in the world
The hedgehog was in his apartment.

Why did the hedgehog run away?

Why can't you take hedgehogs from the forest? (For a hedgehog - a forest native home. The hedgehog eats forest pests poisonous insects. In captivity, in corners of nature, hedgehogs are more susceptible to various diseases and then become carriers of them.)

Imagine that you find a cub in the forest. He seemed poor and abandoned to you and you took him home. A year later he grew up, you got tired of keeping him, and you decided to release him into the wild.

What awaits him in the forest? (He will die because he is not trained either to get food or to escape from enemies.)

What mistakes did you make when taking him home? (you can’t take the cubs, and if you have already taken them, then feed them for the rest of their lives or give them to the zoo)

Conclusion: Nature is our home, and much depends on a person to ensure that there is order in this house.

So that the forests can bloom
And gardens and rivers,
Take care of all living things
You are in this world.
Love nature
Every blade of grass!
Be friends with the birds
Take care of the blade of grass.
Don't bring home a hedgehog
Don't touch the butterfly
Student, always remember:
There aren't that many of them!

7. Lesson summary.

What goal did we set at the beginning of the lesson?

Did you achieve your goal?

What new did you learn about animal life in spring?

Ask each other questions about this topic.

Why do animals shed in the spring?

Why are babies born in the spring?

Why do herbivores have more babies than carnivores? Etc.

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Lesson No. 5. Topic: Animals in spring

Target:

1. Show changes in the lives of animals with the arrival of spring.

2. Trace the connections between living and inanimate nature.

During the classes

I. Working on the lesson topic

1. Conversation

What time of year is this poem about?

The snow has melted among the fields,

A stream runs downhill,

And the grass breaks through.

The violets bloomed in the forest,

And dressed in bright green

All bushes and trees.

Today we continue to talk about spring. The topic of our lesson: “Animals in spring”.

- Name the signs of the onset of spring in inanimate nature

(increase in temperature, i.e. increase in the amount of heat)

- Why has it become warmer? (the sun rose higher above the horizon)

- Do changes occur in the lives of wild animals with the onset of warmer weather? Which? (molting) What is shedding?

2. Dictionary

MOLTING - adaptation to the environment, preparation for the hot season. Animals exchange their warm fur coats for thinner, shorter and less warm coats.

Some animals change the color of their skin during the process of molting. What animals are these? (hare, squirrel, arctic fox). Why do their colors change? (the ability to be unnoticed by enemies is an adaptation to the environment).

3. Animals that hibernate

What else happens to some animals in the spring?

Watch and listen:

Girl: Misha, tell me how you almost slept through spring!

Bear: Without worries and without anxiety

I slept in a warm den.

Slept all winter until spring

And, of course, I had dreams.

Girl: Suddenly the clubfoot woke up.

He hears a drip.

Bear: What a disaster!

I groped in the dark with my paw

And he jumped up - there was water all around!

Girl: The bear hurried outside

Bear: It's flooding! No time for sleep!

Girl: He got out and saw:

Bear: Puddles! Snow is melting! Spring came!

- What changed in the bear's life with the arrival of spring? (he awakens from hibernation, leaves the den)

- What other animals awaken from hibernation? (hedgehog, badger, chipmunk)

- Why are they awakening?

It turns out that animals have special clocks in their bodies that keep time regardless of external conditions. If you put such an animal in constant darkness, the internal clock will still show when it is day and when it is night. They also show the time of year, although nothing has changed around the hole. At these hours the winter sleepyheads wake up in their burrows and dens. The bear wakes up in March and from that time on does not sleep, but dozes slightly, waiting for suitable weather to leave the den.

The badger, having also woken up early, often runs out to see the first thaw. He is “easy on his feet,” and he has reserves for the spring. And if winter returns, the chipmunk can still sleep.

4. Flora and fauna in spring

Does the plant world change with the onset of warmer weather? How? (grass, flowers, leaves appear on trees)

- What are plants for some animals? (food)

Different animals eat differently.

What are the names of animals that eat fruits, seeds, branches and leaves of plants? These are HERBIVORES.

- What are the names of animals that feed on other animals, their fellow animals? These are PREDATORS (or carnivores). Predators are also called BEASTS.

- What are the names of animals that eat both plant and animal foods? OMNIVORES.

Distribution of animals into groups (On the board there are pictures depicting various animals. These could be a squirrel, a hare, a mouse, a fox, an elk, a wolf, a bear, a lynx).

HERBIVOROUS PREDATORS OMNIVORES

Hare wolf bear

Mouse fox squirrel

Elk lynx

- What food chains can be made? What is missing? (plants) Add PLANT to the board.

- Now make up the different food chains.

5. Birth of new offspring

- What important event occurs in animals in the spring? ? (birth of cubs).

- Why in the spring? (in spring, the comfort of the living environment increases: it becomes warmer, and most importantly, there is a lot of food available).

Different animals have different food, its abundance occurs at different times, so not all animals begin to reproduce at the same time.

- Which group of animals give birth to their babies earlier?

(in herbivores)

Why? (unlimited amount of food arrives early)

As scientists have noted, the number of cubs born depends on the animal’s body size. The smaller the animal, the more cubs it has, because... The duration of development of the cubs varies.

- Name the smallest animal listed on the board (mouse).

Voles are very prolific. Newborns develop quickly: 20 days pass from birth to leaving their parents. Over the spring and summer, one mouse can give birth to about 30 voles.

Larger animals (chipmunks, squirrels, hares, hedgehogs) raise their young longer: 1.5 - 2 months, 10 - 15 young are born per season (less than voles).

Listen to what Little Squirrel, Hedgehog, and Little Hare will tell you about their birth.

6. Scene

B.: Oh, hedgehog, how prickly you are!

E.: Yes, my fur coat is prickly, but having such a fur coat, I’m not afraid of anyone. If danger appears - I’ll curl up into a ball - try to touch me, you’ll immediately get a thousand injections.

B.: Were you also born with needles?

E.: Hedgehogs are born without needles and blind. On our pink body we only have a lot of tubercles. Needles appear in their place after a few hours. At first they are soft and light, but gradually harden and darken. My needles grow very quickly.

B.: And I, too, was born naked and blind. But in our hollow I was not cold, because my caring mother warmed me and wrapped me in soft bedding.

Z.: But I don’t remember my mother! And I don't have a home!

B.: How is that? Why?

Z.: I was born right on earth, immediately sighted, covered with fur. Mom fed me milk, left me under a bush and ran away.

E.: And you didn’t feel like eating?

Z.: No, my mother’s milk is nutritious and fatty, so I’m not hungry for 3-4 days.

B.: What about the next days?

Z.: And when I want to eat, I begin to move, leaving a fragrant trail of paws. Any hare finds me along this trail and feeds me milk. And again for 3 - 4 days. And when I grow up, I start eating grass.

7. Discussion of the content of the skit:

- How is a hedgehog born?

- Why is the baby squirrel not cold in the hollow?

- Why doesn't the little bunny know his mother?

8. Caring parents

By leaving the newborn rabbits, the hare thereby shows care for them. An abandoned hare has no smell, it sits motionless, has good protective coloring, and no predator can smell it even at close range.

But how do larger animals - predators - raise their young? The time they raise their cubs increases to 1 year, the number of cubs is from 4 to 6.

Both the wolf and the she-wolf raise their cubs. Wolf cubs remain under the care of their parents in their den for a very long time. At 1.5 - 2 months they just stop sucking mother's milk, and parents begin to accustom them to regular food. Wolf cubs are first fed regurgitated, semi-digested food. Then they begin to bring killed prey and help the cubs tear it apart. Closer to autumn, they are brought half-dead prey and taught to kill it. In the fall, young people learn to hunt under the guidance of their parents.

Foxes leave their parents in the fall, and wolves accompany their children all winter, and in the spring they begin an independent life.

Thus, the larger the predators, the fewer offspring they have, since the rearing time is a whole year (remember small animals, for which this time is much shorter).

What is the largest animal? (bear)

The bear takes the longest to raise its cubs. In the second half of February, the female bear gives birth to small cubs, the size of a mitten, weighing only 500 g. They are blind and naked. The bear keeps them warm on her belly among her fur, warming them with her breath. She feeds them with her milk, but they do not grow, since the bear has little milk, because the bear does not eat anything in winter. Having left the den, the cubs begin to grow quickly. In the autumn they go back to the den with their mother and only by the new autumn they leave the family. Thus, bears raise their children for 1.5 - 2 years.

In addition to the parents, last year’s babysitters are also involved in raising the babies of some animals. In a bear family such a nanny is called a pestun, among wolves it is called a pereyarok (young wolf).

All animals feed their young with milk, which is why they are also called MAMMALS.

All parents take care of their young. How? (protected from enemies, fed, taught to find food, escape from enemies, hunt).

- Why are they doing that? (prepare cubs for adulthood)

In case of danger for the cubs, mothers resort to various tricks. The fox tries to take them away from her home. If people have been near the hole, they drag the children in their teeth to a safe place. When a man appears, the hare takes him away from the bunny, pretending to be wounded, sick, or trying to attract attention to herself by banging her paws on the ground.

9. Forest in spring

In spring, the forest is filled with magical sounds: birdsong, murmuring streams, buzzing, croaking - all this is wonderful music. But sometimes a person adds “his own” to this music - a loud scream, a tape recorder or transistor turned on at full power. This noise negatively affects the inhabitants of the forest. So, bumblebees and bees cannot fly into the air from a loud tape recorder or from a loud scream. Birds and animals will leave their nests and holes forever from such entertainment. This is especially bad in the spring. Why?

It turns out that plants also react negatively to loud noise - they slow down their growth.

So how should we behave in the forest? (Listen to nature, observe, enjoy the beauty, but do not make noise).

Listen to a story about a hedgehog.

And the hedgehog ran away at night.

Nobody offended him.

He was sad already in the morning,

He was sad yesterday.

What was he, stupid, yearning for?

Nobody pestered him

We loved him so much

And ironed and washed,

But he curled up and trembled,

And then he took it and ran away. Why did the hedgehog run away?

Spiders scurried in the grass,

Crickets chirped softly.

With native nature in the world

The hedgehog was in his apartment.

- Why can't you take hedgehogs from the forest? (For a hedgehog, the forest is a home. The hedgehog eats forest pests and poisonous insects. In captivity (corners nature) hedgehogs are more susceptible to various diseases and then become carriers of them).

- Imagine that you find a cub in the forest. She seemed poor and abandoned to you and you took him home. A year later he grew up, you got tired of keeping him and you decided to release him into the wild.

a) What awaits him in the forest? (He will die, since he is not trained either to get food or to escape from enemies).

b) What mistakes did you make when taking him home? (You cannot take the cubs, and if you have already taken them, then feed them for the rest of their lives or give them to the zoo).

Conclusion: Nature is our home, and much depends on a person to ensure order in this house.

So that the forests can bloom

And gardens and rivers,

Take care of all living things

You are in this world.

Love nature

Every blade of grass!

Be friends with the birds

Take care of the blade of grass.

Don't bring home a hedgehog

Don't touch the butterfly

Student, always remember:

There aren't that many of them!

III. RESULT OF THE LESSON

We talked about animal life in spring. Why do animals shed in the spring? Why are babies born in the spring? Why do herbivores have more babies than carnivores? What is the main question we answer in ecology lessons?

Fur-bearing animals molt, shedding their warm fur, replacing it with a lighter, summer coat. hairline(at the end of May, molting ends for most animals). For many animals, offspring appear in the spring. Hares have babies (from 8-12) in March, when the frosts are still quite strong, which is why they are also called crustaceans (at this time the snow melts during the day and freezes at night, forming a dense crust). They are born developed, with open eyes. The hare feeds them heartily and then leaves. Then any hare that runs past can feed them. 3-4 feedings are enough, since after a week their teeth grow and they begin to feed on their own. The squirrel gives birth to 5-6 blind and helpless cubs, only after a month and a half do they begin to run quickly. During the season, squirrels and hares can have up to three litters, especially when there is enough food. In April, the she-wolf gives birth to offspring. Wolves usually make their lair in a remote place. The wolf feeds the growing wolf cubs with semi-digested food, obtaining it far from its den, and when the wolf cubs grow teeth, they learn to kill the prey brought to them, and then hunt with their parents. The fox makes a hole in a secluded place or uses a ready-made hole (for example, a badger hole ). She has more than a dozen cubs, so parents have to work hard to feed them. The mother feeds them milk for a short time, and then begins to bring birds and mice, gradually teaching them to catch live prey. It is easy to find a fox hole, because the area around it is very dirty and littered with bones. After 9-10 months, the fox cubs become independent. Both parents take part in raising the young. The earliest cubs, already in February, appear in the mother bear’s den (as a rule, no more than 2-3). They are born blind, small (the size of a three-day puppy) and after a few days they regain their sight. The bear feeds them until April, losing a lot of weight in the process. Then he takes the cubs out of the den. During this period, bears eat everything from insects to random carrion. A meeting with a female bear at this time is very dangerous, as she protects the cubs from anything that seems suspicious to her. In May, helpless, naked, blind cubs (3-5) are born to the hedgehog. They grow very quickly and within a month they begin to lead an independent life. Hedgehogs are very useful animals, they destroy a large number of insects, slugs, mice and attack vipers without fear. Mink, marten, and other animals have babies. Cubs are also born in the spring in ungulates: roe deer and moose cows. Summer is characterized by the development and increase in offspring in all animals. This is the most favorable time for life: a lot of light and warmth, a lot of food. On hot days, midges, horseflies, and mosquitoes torment not only livestock, but also wild animals that hide from them in the water or on open area. Many insects fly over the flowering meadows, among which the bumblebee, the best pollinator of clover, stands out with its loud buzzing. In June, the hubbub of vocal birds is interrupted by the friendly squeaks of chicks. “Hunting” birds begin to moult: black grouse (siberian grouse), wood grouse, ducks. Crayfish hide in burrows in shallow water, they have shed their tight shell and now involuntarily hide until a new one is formed. In early July, cubs appear bats and lizards. There are many different beetles in the meadows and forests, the chirping of grasshoppers and crickets never stops, they flutter colorful butterflies and dragonflies. At this time, the fish becomes lethargic and bites poorly. In August, the birds begin to gather in flocks and roam. Many animals grow up with young animals that begin an independent life. It is time for fish in reservoirs to feed and grow their young.

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Wildlife of the forest in spring. (in 2 parts) Part 2. “Waiting for Spring” For older children before school age Prepared by: GBDOU teacher Kindergarten No. 32 village Metal construction of the Kolpinsky district of St. Petersburg Morozova Tatyana Valentinovna.

Goal: To introduce children to seasonal changes in the life of animals in the spring - molting, caring for offspring; Develop the ability to establish cause-and-effect relationships; Cultivate an interest in animal life. Objectives: To consolidate children's knowledge about spring, signs of spring, wild animals, to consolidate the names of wild animals and their cubs. children's knowledge about the changes taking place in their lives with the arrival of spring. Expand children's vocabulary.

Spring came cheerfully from the forest. The bear responded to her, purring from sleep. The bunnies jumped up to her, the rook flew up to her, the hedgehog rolled after her, like a prickly ball. The squirrel was alarmed, Looking from the hollow, - The fluffy one waited for Light and warmth!.. The whole transparent forest smiled joyfully. And the frost behind the trees, growling, disappeared. (L. Agracheva)

In spring, animals molt. Some animals not only shed, but even change the color of their coat. The hare's fur was white in winter and turned gray in spring. This makes it easier for him to hide from predators in the forest. And in winter, a bunny in a white fur coat is not visible in the snow, and in spring, gray fur helps to hide from enemies under the bushes. The squirrel also changes its outfit - in winter it was in a thick gray fur coat, and in the spring it faded and became red. Now you won’t immediately notice it in the crowns of pine trees.”

- Tell me, squirrel, why Fur coat turned gray, I don’t understand? – I changed my fur coat to make it easier to hide. – From whom? – A winter fur coat will hide you from the forest hawk and ferret. And while I wear the gray one until spring And change it to red, the color of pine, They won’t find the red one on the bark! I'll wear my old one again in October.

Squirrels also give birth to young squirrels in the spring. They are born naked, helpless, and cannot see anything. The mother squirrel takes care of them, feeding the squirrels milk for two months. But the squirrel dad does not live with his family, he lives separately. The mother squirrel spends a lot of time searching for food, otherwise the baby squirrels will grow up frail and sick. Baby squirrels require special attention from the mother squirrel; they need to be covered, warmed, and fed. Only after a month do the baby squirrels open their eyes and begin to look out of the nest. In spring, the squirrel is the enemy of all birds and the most dangerous predator for many birds. She's ruining bird's nests on tree branches and drags chicks and eggs from them.

Have the birds really flown from the south, the sparrows are fighting in a puddle, the hare white fur not needed: A hare is walking through the forest, sporting a gray fur coat! The sun is shining brightly again, It will soon become very hot!

The mother hare feeds the bunnies and immediately runs away, leaving them alone under a bush. And the bunnies sit under the bush for three to four days - waiting for someone to feed them new mom- hare. There are no strangers' bunnies - they are all their own and will always be fed. Hares' milk is fatty and nutritious; it lasts for 3-4 days. Why does nature work this way? The fact is that hares have sweat and sebaceous glands only on the soles of their paws. And if the hare lived with the hares, they would quickly be found - they could smell them by smell - a fox or a wolf. After all, rabbits have many enemies - fox, wolf, marten, lynx, and predator birds. And when a tiny bunny sits under a bush and hides its paws under itself, it is impossible to find it by its smell. It turns out that by running away from the bunnies, the hare saves them. After 8-9 days, the rabbits will have teeth, and then grass will appear, and they will begin to feed themselves. In the spring, the animals give birth to their young. Almost all baby animals live with their mothers, except for rabbits.

The little fox's burrow is in the ground, The cunning one sleeps in the warmth. Next to her are fox cubs, two funny brothers. As soon as the sun rises, it leads them to hunt Red-haired cheat. There is skill in catching. N. Shkonda

Foxes in spring. Foxes also have cubs. Usually in March - April, a fox gives birth to 4-6 cubs. Little foxes are dark brown in color, and the tips of their tails are white! After 3-4 weeks, the fox cubs stop eating the milk of their mother, the fox, but still live in the hole. Their parents bring them food into the hole. Their mother, the fox, does not allow anyone near the fox cubs. She guards the hole. The mother fox watches closely to see if there is any danger nearby. In case of danger, the fox barks loudly, and the cubs quickly run away - they hide deep in the hole. And if people or dogs have visited the fox hole, then the fox will definitely move her cubs to another safe place - away from the previous hole. The father fox also helps raise the fox cubs. He teaches them and brings them booty. Foxes molt in the spring. They exchange their winter coat - warm, thick - for a summer, lighter one.

In the spring, the fox gives birth to cubs: 4.5 or 6 puppies. Yes, yes, fox cubs are called puppies. Whose other babies are called puppies? Foxes and dogs are close relatives. They even have similar voices: foxes, like dogs, bark and yap. Dad is a fox, fox is mom, Their house is a hole, not a pit. It's dark and cramped there, But the fox cubs are always frolicking in safety, The kids have no one to fear. If the kids are scared, they will quickly hide in a hole.

Wolves in the spring. To raise wolf cubs, wolves make a den in the forest thicket. In the spring, a she-wolf gives birth to 4-7 cubs. They are born helpless and covered with gray fluff. First, the she-wolf feeds the cubs with her milk, and does not leave them anywhere. And daddy the wolf brings food to the she-wolf. When the wolf cubs grow up, both mother and father feed them together.