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TAIGA

TAIGA CLIMATE

The taiga has six seasons that including spring,break up,summer,freeze up, and winter. The temperatures never get very high the highest temperatures are in the summer only reaching 70 degrees and dropping down to around 30 degrees. The winters temperatures only reach 30 degrees and dropping down to a bone chilling -65 degrees. In the winter there may be many days with no sun just dark cold days. It can snow up to 40 inches but the average snowfall is from 16-39 inches. The winter temperatures can last from 6-8 months.

Taiga Animals ​ ​ There are many different animals in the taiga and these include. The Lynx is a small to medium sized nocturnal carnivore,nocturnal means it comes out at night. It stalks its prey and lies in wait. It hunts a variety of small mammals which include hares,rodents,young deer, and ground living birds like grouse. The lynx can grow up to 2-4 feet as an adult and 2 feet at the shoulder as a adult. ​The wolf also lives in the taiga it is a medium sized carnivore,the wolf can survive almost anywhere and the taiga is a place the wolf is best suited for. Wolves hunt better in the snow by hunting in packs and since they are canines they do not tire easy and can run for hours and in the snow animals like caribou cant run as fast and they can catch them easier. The wolf can grow to 3 feet at the shoulder they weigh from 40-176 and 3-5 feet from nose to tail. There are many different types of animals in the taiga and here are some there is the red fox which is a small nocturnal canine, the bobcat which is a small to medium sized nocturnal cat,the black bear which is a large mammal that hunts mainly in the day and is 5-6 feet long from nose to tail and 32-38 inches from paw to shoulder it also weighs from 220-594 pounds,the wolverine which is a small mammal that is only around 45 pounds and is about 85 centimeters long but it is the largest of the weasel family it is also a solitary animal which means it stays alone and hunts alone, the marten is a smaller mammal in the weasel family it is a omnivore but spends most of its time in trees hunting squirrels, the grizzly bear is a very large omnivore weighing between 330-885 pounds and a height of 3-3.5 feet at the shoulder and a length of 4.9-8.3 feet, the bald eagle is a large bird that is a carnivore that can have a wingspan of 2 meters (or 7 feet) and a height of 1 meter (or 3.5 feet), and there is the river otter which is a smaller mammal in the weasel family they spend much time in water eating stuff like fish and crawdads it can grow to a length of 25-30 inches and its tail is 16-18 inches long and it weighs 10-33 pounds.





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Created by: Josh Cowan,Jesse Green,Brett Pless 6th grade