How to help pupils prepare a home for the winter?

On the eve of winter animal organism is reconstructed: adjusting to lower temperatures and reduced daylight. Immunity pets decreases, they become drowsy, their body needs more vitamins.

In this period should be especially attentive to the behavior of their pet and be able to predict what kind of help he needs. After the beast say it will not ...

Dog depression
Sometimes the fall affects dogs as well as people: they, too, begins depression! Pay more attention to pet, caress, play a little longer than usual, often take to the streets. Daily physical exercise and physical activity will improve the mood and the dog, and you. In November of daylight shortens, the temperature drops and the dogs begin active molt. It is particularly reinforced by the inclusion of radiator. Let's pet dog multivitamins containing vitamin A, biotin, and unsaturated fatty acids, and then the new coat is thick and silky. Autumn dog organism particularly susceptible to infections: do not forget to make vaccines against infectious diseases.

Cats sleep
Cats in anticipation of winter are more calm, long sleep and a warm embrace to the batteries. Like dogs, before cold weather they are actively shed. To fur grew thick and beautiful, supplement the diet with multivitamins cats taurine and biotin. The cat, which goes into the street, with the onset of winter lie in wait for such perils as salt reagent and various chemicals that are sprinkled on the track during slippery road conditions. Getting on a soft pad feet, reagent causes burns and leads to the formation of painful ulcers. Therefore, after your furry beauty returned from a walk, wash her feet with clean water.

hamster - in heat
If your hamster hides food in secret places - expect a quick cold snap! More often to check bins and do not let spoiled food, or pet might be poisoned. As the daylight decreases, pets are becoming restless. Chinchillas, guinea pigs insulated nests of any available material - thread, pieces of litter and wool, which animals plucked from each other! Then buried in insulation and for a long time there does not emerge. Vitamin deficiency and reduced immunity compensate, adding to the usual food germinated grains, herbs and vitamins.

Fish need light
Autumn - the best time to do the improvement of the aquarium. Audited underwater garden: remove damaged plants. If a lot of algae, they were trimmed, leaving the strongest. Check all equipment, clean the filters and valves of compressors. Lack of lighting has a bad effect on the feelings of fish, so with a lyuksometra measure if there is enough light in the aquarium. Take care of properly heating the aquarium: keep the temperature about 20 C. Inspect its inhabitants. Pay attention to color and condition of the fins of goldfish and the state of the eyes and scales - in cichlids. Weak and sick fish to remove. Small fishes transfer to another aquarium. Serious preparation for winter fish require high bandwidth, living in an aquarium: minnows, ruffs, perches. In the autumn they need a gradual decrease in water temperature. In winter it should not exceed 7 C.

Long Day's Birds
All the birds feel the approach of winter and prepare for it. In the autumn they begin abundant molt. If they are fed only grain, new feathers to grow long and will look dull and uneven. Bird takes seriously this time: sitting on a perch refuses to eat. During this period, it needs an additional source of amino acids and minerals. Add to food or water, multivitamins containing these substances. Birds, like other animals, suffer from lack of light in winter. Dark evenings include a table lamp in daylight. This will cause a bird feels like daylight lasted.

Cheerful reptiles
For the cold-blooded approach of winter due to the thorough reorganization of the organism. Almost all species of turtles, frogs, lizards and snakes fall into a long hibernation: the metabolism slows down, the animals stop eating, become lethargic. They fall into a state of suspended animation. To prepare for reptiles gentle wintering smoothly and evenly reduces the temperature of heating in the terrarium and contract in its coverage of up to 4 hours, but not stop completely. Turtles fed no more than once in 4-5 days, and snakes and do once a month.

If you follow all these tips, all your favorites will be better able to move the winter.

Maria Magomayev
http://animaldin.blogspot.com/

How animals are heated in winter?

We - warm-blooded creatures and our bodies comes from the heat. When we get together several times the amount of heat increases, which sometimes leads us into a state of discomfort (for example, in the subway). People do not like the closeness to nature of psychosocial reasons - most of us do not want others invading personal space. But for some living creatures bask in each of the other - an urgent need.

When the birds get in large flocks, they not only provide a protection from predators, but also each other warm on cold nights. Emperor Penguin is perhaps the most characteristic example of how to pack provides heat. Penguins live and breed in the cold climate of the Antarctic, their bodies adapted to low temperatures, and the record here - the Emperor penguin. Under his skin is a thick layer of fat on the skin - a layer of fluff, which is not breathable, followed by a layer of waterproof feathers, which aim to protect the body from falling on him ice water. This means that the penguin is no problem at, say, minus 10 degrees Celsius. But in the depths of the Antarctic thermometer falls to minus 70. Birds survive in such cold weather, faltering in the pack. Those who are outside, freezing more than others, so every now and then they dive into the circle to keep warm, and then return to their seats - up until one comes their turn to switch to other birds.

In the Arctic winter temperature drops to minus 35 degrees Celsius. But it is not worried about the polar bear, which spends most of his life on the giant floating ice.

White Bear withstand these extreme conditions thanks to its fur. The top layer of fur consists of long, oily, hollow hairs, which hold the body of this 600-pound mammal on the surface of water during its regular dives into the icy waters of the ocean. Fur Bear also has a water repellent, so the bear can shake and once again become dry, as it makes the dog. It will also aim to protect from moisture bottom layer of fur. Dense soft retains heat and helps in the buoyancy of the animal. Another of the "tricks" of polar bears - to allow the snow to fall asleep himself while sleeping or hunting, that protects the animal from cold winds.

The biggest enemy of the polar bear (with the exception of man, hunted him for skins and meat) - is hot. During the cold season, the main source of food for polar bears, seals, forced to climb out of the sea water on the ice surface through the hole so the bear lies motionless for hours about her and patiently watches. But in the summer, when the ice area decreases, the polar bear becomes vulnerable. Because of the dependence of polar bears from global warming, cold weather puts the life of the animal especially the risk. In the Arctic, climate change is already fixed in the direction of warming, sea ice cover is less time than before, and Polar Bear have longer without food. Condition of his body is deteriorating as a result suffers animal reproduction. The polar bear has virtually disappeared everywhere in the southernmost habitats of its habitat.

subcutaneous fat

Mammals that spend most of their time in water, such as whales, seals and dolphins, have a layer of fat, which helps them keep warm. For those of mammals, who in pursuit of prey have to dive, one fur for protection against the cold is not enough because the water pressure "blows" of fur pockets of air. Meanwhile, the water temperature in the Arctic Ocean and Antarctic seas may be minus 4 degrees Celsius.

Layer of fat protects against cold blood vessels, and keeps reserves of nutrients. Also, the layer of fat helps the animals during swimming. The colder the water temperature in the region where the animal lives, the thicker layer of his fat.

Escaping from the cold

Another way to overcome the cold - is running away from him, and best of all it makes the birds. The migration of birds is one of the wonders of nature. These small creatures fly hundreds or even thousands of kilometers, heading for warmer climates.

Birds migrate not only to the south, but also in the Nordic countries. Thus, two species of thrushes from Scandinavia arrive in the UK to spend the winter.

Migrate to the south, not only birds but other animals: gray whale arrives from the Arctic seas in the tropics move south in search of food hoofed animals such as reindeer in the Arctic and antelope, wildebeest in Africa. Migrate even butterflies: Monarch, a large orange and black butterfly from North America, makes flights each fall, sometimes huge groups of millions of butterflies, from the U.S. to Mexico.

Hibernation

Hibernation - is an effective way to survive for many warm-blooded animals in regions with cold climates. Hibernating fall and warm-blooded animals - hedgehogs, bats, bears, and cold-blooded - newts, turtles, butterflies.

Unfortunately, the human organism is not adapted to the state of suspended animation, which is necessary for hibernation and for which slows the heartbeat, metabolism, respiration and other processes.

Human experience

In the human body has a number of ways to resist the cold. Usually naked man begins to freeze in a little water at a temperature of below plus 25 degrees Celsius. When the water temperature decreases, blood vessels dilate, increasing the pressure and the skin is covered with goose bumps - a useless attempt to keep the warm air near the skin. Due to the contraction of muscles a person begins to shiver, and the body begins to produce five times more heat than usual. In order to keep heat in the vital organs is the outflow of blood in them from the less important for the functioning of the body parts of the body such as hands, feet and nose.

People-"walruses" accustom themselves to the cold water temperature through constant training and consumption of high calorific food.

Only here the current abnormally warm winter to train with them, probably does not work.

Source: Jonathan Brown, Michael McCarthy
http://animaldin.blogspot.com/