New fans: May

1998/05/01 Elosegi Irurtia, Migel M. Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Zoologia
• Ekologia
• Ingurumena

May, perfect

Little by little the trees have been dressed in leaves. The beech and oak trees have cost a little more, but in the end we all have become green.

For several days, the green of the beech trees is usually incredible and inside these dark forests there is a green and explosive luminosity. Although in the beginning the color of each tree species is special, as the days pass they are getting dark and the separation of the different species from a distance becomes more difficult. The flowers, both more beautiful and more aromatic, are to attract and reproduce insects. As for animals, they cannot waste time because they are at the highest moment of reproduction. On the other hand, along with the proliferation of bugs and the arrival of the last migrants, we must mention that our spring fauna will be complete.

And some catching the sun?

Haven't we said you can't waste time? So what are the lizard and snakes doing sunbathing?

If I understood it half way before, since I bought the car I understand it perfectly. And is that I do not know to what extent the handcar can not be launched when it is cold (if it does not go downhill). With the cold and rainy weather, instead, you just have to descend.

Something similar has to happen to reptiles and most “cold blood” animals to get them going, so as the sun’s rays come out they start to heat very long. Many step on the body to put the largest surface in the sun. Once the blood is tempered, they can hunt. Lizards have been formed in small bugs and snakes in lizards, mice and other small vertebrates.

Numerous insects

If you notice that insects are everywhere: herbs, litter, rocks and air. Among them, butterflies are one of the best known. Adorned with striking colors and with special movements, they try to attract the players and, once paired, put them in plants that love caterpillars. The butterfly of Osinas, for example, is one of the most common in Euskal Herria and, as its name suggests, puts the eggs in the shells. The caterpillars that are born there eat very easily to accumulate energy, make metamorphosis and turn them into butterflies.

Eggs, chickens, pups… what a job!

Just discover the nest in the dance and without even opening the eye, the puppies have opened the mouth and have started to make txioka. The father brought a couple of worms and seeing the red mouths of the young, they have quickly grazed and come back hunting. The female arrived three minutes later with grasshoppers and despite the fact that the front worm was half absorbed, the milestones have reopened the mouth and have asked for more. His hunger seems unlimited! They feed on the neck to grow and leave the nest as soon as possible.

Many birds have started the second season and while the female is heating the eggs of the second round, the milestones of the last breeding ask for food after their father. At first it grazed without mistake, but each time it takes less and less care of the little ones. These, for their part, have to ask more and more the father and from a moment, when they are asked for food on their own but it becomes more difficult, they will have to start looking for food. That was precisely what the parents wanted. So the little ones would adapt like them.

Chitos Survival

Let's get the bills. Our correspondent interviewed two children, four in the second and three in the third. So where we had two blackheads (adding nine young people), now that we have 11, we can conclude that the population is growing, right? If not! Most birds spend the year pulling out many chickens, but populations do not suffer great ups and downs.

How has this been understood? The reason why some animals breed so much is compensated by the high mortality of the species. Thus, most chicks that take our myrtle out of the nest will be hunted by predators, starvation will die or as they will end, but very few will get to maturity. According to experts, maturity will be equal to or less than 10% of the eggs deposited in most bird species.

Zeal of Basoilarra

Red dawn in a dark Pyrenean jungle. Together with the first rays of the sun strange sounds have been heard. At the tip of a pine, an elegant basgallo sings love songs. When landing, hanging the wings, opening the tail completely, lifting the feathers from the neck and looking up, the giant rooster has continued to crow. Like a ghost, a female approaches hiding and when she realizes it, the male begins to sing blindly. Shortly afterwards, the male has managed to cover the female and this second has begun to look for some hidden corner to spawn.

Hedgehog halfway

The hedgehog, the mannequin, or the apple tree, as you want, is an animal I see often, but unfortunately, I usually see it on the road. This nice mammal dressed in thorns, throughout evolution, achieved a good defensive system. In fact, few predators can dominate when the hedgehog meets and becomes a ball of thorns.

However, on roads he continues to use the same system that has served him for thousands of years. So when you start crossing the road and get scared, you wind up and stay there. We all know the conclusion: the hedgehog of human nature hit by the vehicle is as flat as the stem. When will we learn to take steps for animals?

Boar with young

Behind the scrub comes a beautiful sow with its 5 young. Although the mother is very dark, the young have yellow remains that camouflage perfectly in the forest. They have learned to follow their mother for years and although they have not finished breastfeeding, they have put the snout into the ground and learn to look for fodder on their own. Despite suffering a strong hunting pressure, the population of these fast mammals has increased in recent years in our territory, so it is not surprising that at this time he meets some gang of wild boars.

Elhuyar journalist: "Congratulations Madame Enara!" Many requests!

Elhuyar journalist: - Zorionak Mr. Buztangorri! - Thank you! Baniak eh? 6 hungry kumezeakeatis to eat!

Elhuyar journalist: - Congratulations Mrs. Zozo, how about the family?- Well, yes, thank you! The first time I took out two puppies and they were cooked. Now I have four others in the nest and if there are no mistakes I will grow all. If time helps us, we also want to try to remove the third chitazo.

Elhuyar journalist: - Congratulations Mr. Bele!- What mercy!

(Sometimes our journalist gets a little heavy and as at this time we have most stressed birds, this attitude is understandable. Anyway, veils have always been sparks with journalists…)