GOPHER SWEARING
Gopher swearing | gopher swearing
Gopher protects the hole and shouted curses, making funny sounds repellent. Photographed in Russia (Krasnoyarsk, Tatyshev island).
As is known gopher - is not only valuable fur, but also the ability to swear. In this video you can see how frightened marmot shouts (ie, ground squirrel screams). Generally hear screams like a marmot or like a cat screaming or yelling rabbit is always interesting, because their cry - it's not always what you expect. I would even say that to hear the screams as the fat ground squirrel - a definite prospect for trauma;)
Generally, ground squirrels (Spermophilus, Citellus) - is a medium-sized rodent of the squirrel family.
The body length of about 30 cm of ground squirrels, tail 15 cm (which is usually less than half the body length gopher). Hind legs slightly longer than the front ground squirrels. Ears gophers short, slightly pubescent. Painting gopher back very diverse, from green to purple. On each side of the body can pass gopher light stripes. Belly gopher usually dirty-yellow or whitish color. By winter fur had become soft and thick, and in the summer it is shorter and coarser.
Gophers are widespread on the steppe, forest-steppe, forest-tundra landscape lugostepnym and temperate latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Characteristic of open landscapes. By meadow areas of river valleys extend beyond the Arctic Circle, and on ostepnёnnym areas - in the semi-deserts and even the desert; mountain steppes rise up into the mountains to a height of 3500 m above sea level. Lifestyle gopher ground; They live in colonies in burrows, which are dug themselves. The length of the holes, and it is subject to the type of ground squirrel and the particular landscape. On sandy soils are the most two longest - up to 15 m long and 3 m deep; more dense clay soils are rarely longer than 5-7 m. The Gophers are known for their habit of danger when getting up on their hind legs and emit characteristic whistling sounds. As in the cartoon hamster and gopher.
They feed on gophers aboveground and underground parts of plants, always far from the norm. Some species consume feed and animals, usually insects. Make significant food reserves from the seeds of herbaceous plants and grain cereals. Are active in the morning and evening; Day is advantageously carried out in burrows. Gophers shout (swear), defending its burrow. In the cold season hibernate, duration and timing of which are highly dependent on geographic location. A number of species along with hibernation and summer there is associated with the lack of fodder.
Gon have gophers usually begins a few days after waking from hibernation.
Large species of ground squirrels have a value in the fur trade.
Gopher protects hole and swears, making funny sounds repellent. Video shot in Russia (Krasnoyarsk, i. Tatyshev).
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