Coniferous forests consist mainly of fir-trees, pines, firs, larches. They generally settle down in a taiga zone, in a northern part of Eurasia and North America. As it is a zone of quite frigid climate, the animals adapted for such climate live there.
Large animals
One of the largest inhabitants of coniferous forests - a bear. This omnivore who eats fish and berries in the summer to save up fat for long hibernation. With the advent of snow it goes to a den till the spring.
One more inhabitant of these places - a lynx, the so-called forest cat leading a nocturnalism. She hunts small predators, birds and hares. When seasons change, also color of hair of lynx changes that allows it to be imperceptible. In the summer it has a light brown color with dark specks, and in the winter - white. The lynx easily climbs trees, well swims. She eats hares, small rodents, birds, foxes, deer, often eats sick and weak animals.
Forest giant call in the people of an elk. He eats lichens and a moss, eats around branches of young trees and bushes. In the winter he has a rest in deepenings in snow, hiding legs under a warm belly. The elk prefers the young woods and dense thickets near reservoirs and swamps, the benefit he is rather dexterous and capable to overcome even fenny swamps.
Herbivorous representatives of fauna eat mushrooms, berries, seeds of cones, a grass, leaves and branches of trees and bushes.
Deer behave quite quietly, at dawn and at sunset eat a grass on lawns. However during the marriage period they become cocky and dangerous, arranging duels in fight for females. A fox - the typical representative of fauna of the coniferous forest. It is a predator and eats small rodents. One more large predator and the relative of a fox - a wolf. He hunts both for small rodents and birds, and for a large catch - elks, boars, he eats and drop.
Average and small animals
The typical representative of fauna of the coniferous forest - protein. In the winter it gray color, and in the summer - reddish. She suits a nest in a hollow or on branches, is closer to a trunk. The squirrel covers a nest dry blades, leaflets, a lichen, moss and wool. There she also winters, eating the stocks prepared in the fall. In a nest usually one-two entrances which the squirrel in a frost closes a lichen or own tail.
In general the animals living in coniferous forests differ in more dark coloring and more dense fur. Birds also have soft coloring and a layer of down which warms them.
Hares eat branches and bark of a birch, aspen, hazel grove, oak, a maple and also the dried-up grass. In the afternoon they hide in secluded places - about stubs, trunks, in bushes. When the frost comes, hares dig to themselves deep holes. They sleep with open eyes. Wide strong paws allow an animal to move easily in the forest, including on snow and to escape from predators. Different types of family of marten are well adapted for life in a taiga. These are martens, a sable, caress, minks, gluttons, ermines, etc. Among the small animals inhabiting coniferous forests - lemmings, voles, chipmunks, hedgehogs and others. Lizards, already, of a viper occur among reptiles.