Biography about the carcass

Dear editors! I would like to read on the pages of the magazine about tushki. These are my favorite animals, and they write very little about them. Large ears, eyes and long vibrissas of tushkiks indicate well -developed hearing, twilight vision and tactile. The photo is one of the representatives of the genus of sandy carcasses. A long tail helps the carcasses maintain balance during jumping, especially with sharp turns for a gallop.

In the photo - ordinary sandy carcasses. Virovets in the city of tushkanchiki cannot be confused with any rodents. They are the only ones who move on two legs, starting at the same time with both rear paws. Moreover, these animals, like a person, can walk and run, relying only on one leg, then on the left, then on the right. Some carcasses, when they use their two paws at once, are able to run with incredible speed: forty kilometers per hour.

And they jump during such a run further than three meters, which exceeds the length of the animals of the animals by twenty times. It is curious that the length of the hind legs in many carcasses is twice the length of the spine, and the foot on these paws is longer than the entire front paw. A beasts with such extraordinary paws live in the steppes, semi -deserts and deserts. Thanks to these hairs, animals, fleeing from predators, easily take off along the steep, loose slopes of the dunes.

A tail with a brush, usually from white, brown and black hair, also helps to run tuskanchiki: it serves as a balancer. Unexpected turns that these animals are so masterfully able to do so expertly were also impossible. When the tushka suddenly changes the direction of movement, he sharply throws his tail in the direction opposite to the turn. Tushkans are night animals. It’s practically impossible to see the running at the twilight of the animal: it completely merges with the soil.

But his flickering brush, white at the end, immediately catches his eye. And the predator, if he manages to catch up with the tushka, grabs him by the tail. However, only a brush remains in his mouth. The tushka dumps the skin from the end of the tail and thus saves his life. This feature must be taken into account if the animal who finds himself in the apartment must be caught for some reason.

It is extremely undesirable to take it with a hand by the tail. The tail is needed for carcasses for other purposes. In it, fat storages. And by the way the tail looks, you can determine whether the animal lives well or badly in captivity. The vertebrae appears on the tail in the tail, in the well -fed - the tail is almost round. Tushkanchiki, who live in natural habitats, having gone about four kilometers overnight, return to their underground houses to relax, sleep.

One carcass can have several houses interconnected by galleries. Tushkanchiki are beautiful diggers. Residents of clay and gravelly deserts have to deal with very dense soil. Once in captivity, the slopes-slopes rush over the night in the wall of a brick house, a stroke of half a meter long. And they go to bed in a new hole, closing, as expected, entering it with brick crumbs. However, the inhabitants of sand deserts dig their own at home in mainly with front paws.

They use incisors only when some kind of root or sand that must be loosened first. Tushkans are very different in size. The largest - earthen hares, or large carcasses - weigh more than four hundred grams. And the smallest-dwarf-just ten to fifteen grams. Nevertheless, all of them, who found themselves in captivity, should be provided with large rooms, where the carcasses can run, jump, and chase each other.

Otherwise, their hind legs will begin to hurt and animals will quickly die. Tushkans are animals in general peaceful. Representatives of different species can live together. However, these should be animals of approximately the same size. Otherwise, large will deal with the small ones. It happens that among the carcasses of the same species there is a subject who does not want anyone else to live next to him.

Therefore, he constantly pursues his neighbors.

Such a tushka from a common house should be taken and settled separately. Large animals-earthen hares, tushki Severstsov or rowing carcasses-need an aviary of a metal grid two to three meters long and a meter wide. What the height of the aviary should be, it is easy to determine. Severtsov’s tushki, who are similar to earthen hares, but slightly smaller of them, catching night butterflies, jump up half a meter.

Rowing carcasses are also capable of jumping about the same height. At the bottom, the enclosures put a well -dried turf. In it, the carcasses will be done, as in the wild, holes and entrances and outputs from them. From the roots found in Skin, and dry grass they will build a nest in the burrows. Additional building material that needs to be put in an aviary is sheep or camel wool.

Her animals are used in the nest as a litter. From turf on the floor, enclosure double benefits. Firstly, the tushki is always clean, because fine dust cleans their fur well.Secondly, they endlessly remake their holes, which means they move a lot. Medium -sized tushki - furry and others - can live in large aquariums with an area of ​​1.2 x 0.25 meters covered with nets. They also put the turf in the aquarium: one third of the height of the dwelling.

And for the inhabitants of sand deserts, a small bunch of river sand is also needed, previously sifted through a sieve with small holes. The dwarf -carcasses are also kept in aquariums. A five -fingered dwarf carcass needs a turf with a small gravel, and a three -fingered dwarf carcass - a fat -huck -high - thick layer of a very small, sifted sand and a house, cardboard or wooden.

Fatty -tailed carcasses are fed with hemp seeds, sunflower, corn, rice, millet, canary seed, and tulips bulbs. Karlikov five -fingered carcasses are given by millet, oats, canary seed, spruce seeds, as well as hemp seeds and sunflower seeds. However, the number of these seeds, as in the menu of a fat -hunged tushka, should be minimal. A tiny animal eats one and a half to two grams of the mixture per day.

In addition, dwarf carcasses need animal food: night butterflies, grasshoppers, crickets, flour worms. The animals need to offer fruits apples, grapes and vegetables every day, until they get used to it and begin to eat them. Seeds and carcasses of Severtsov are given the seeds of sunflower, watermelon, melon, pumpkin, oats, wheat, rye, corn, dandelion leaves, cavalry fruits, hercups, fresh rolls, apples, carrots, beets, potatoes.

In addition, earthen hares eat dandelion roots. And in autumn and winter they need to bring thin twigs of aspen, willow, maple, from which they gnaw off the bark. The easiest way to provide food and create normal living conditions for earthen hares and tushki Seversov. Only these animals become truly manual. The most difficult thing is to keep rowing tushki. They very poorly tolerate high humidity, temperature changes and therefore do not live in captivity for a long time.

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