Animals In the Taiga

1. Animals In the Taiga by Nikki B

2. Abiotic And Biotic In the Taiga • There are lots of helpful biotic and abiotic in taiga that help various kinds of animals live there. Some of them are…. • Abiotic: The taiga has an extensive and long river network, like the Yenisei River. The rivers are filled with fish to help bears such as the grizzlies and the black bears fish for there food. • Biotic: For the hundreds of birds that live in the taiga, the taiga offers evergreen trees. These trees are especially helpful to the yellow bellied sapsucker because the trees are rich in sap.

3. HERBIVOROUS ANIMALS • The SNOWSHOE RABBIT is a herbivore because it eats fresh green plants and grass in the summer, and when the weather turns cold in the winter it munches on twigs, shoots, and buds • The YELLOW BELLIED SAPSUCKER is a herbivore because it pecks holes in trees to suck up the sap, mostly in evergreens • The AMERICAN ELK is a herbivore because it is known for eating dried grass, and a variety of greens

4. Herbivore Animal Pictures American Elk Yellow Bellied Sapsucker Snowshoe Hare

5. CARNIVOROUS ANIMALS • The RIVER OTTER is a carnivore because it eats plenty of fish every day • The LONG EARED OWL is a carnivore because it feasts on rodents, small mammals, and birds by hunting them down in clearings and fallow fields • The CANADIAN LYNX is a carnivore because it eats hares, small rodents, squirrels and grouse. The Canadian lynx has no predators.

6. Carnivore Animal Pictures River Otter Long Eared Owl Canadian Lynx

7. OMNIVOROUS ANIMALS • The GRIZZLY BEAR is an omnivore because it eats various kinds of fish in the river and plenty of berries • The AMERICAN BLACK BEAR is an omnivore because it eats plants, fruit, nuts, insects, honey, salmon, small mammals, and carrion. • The RED FOX is an omnivore because it munches on fruits, berries, grasses, birds and small mammals. It is known to have few predators.

8. Omnivore Animal Pictures Red Fox Grizzly Bear American Black Bear

9. Adaptions in the Taiga • Special adaption that helps animals live in the taiga are… • The Snowshoe Rabbit can’t live in warm weather. The taiga’s average temperature is 14-56, so it is a cool and cold place for a snowshoe rabbit to live. • The Taiga has many rivers, of course, and each are rich in fish. The taiga happens to be the home of the Atlantic Salmon, other wise know as a tasty fish to many bears, such as the Grizzly Bear.

10. FOOD CHAINS RIVER OTTER FOOD CHAIN: Fish River Otter Algae secondary consumer primary consumer producer LONG EARED OWL FOOD CHAIN: Rodents Seeds Long Eared Owl secondary consumer primary consumer producer

11. Decomposers In The Taiga • There are many decomposers in the taiga such as fungi, bacteria, snow bug, and common soil bacteria. • The one I picked to talk about its role in the taiga is the Honey Fungus. Honey Fungus attacks woody and herbaceous plants.

12. CREDITS Made and Designed By Nikki B. http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/taiga/animals/rabbit.htm http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/taiga.htm http://animalstime.com/red-fox-facts-kids-red-fox-habitat-diet/ http://www.treknature.com/gallery/photo246643.htm http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_taiga%27s_average_temperature http://www.taigarescue.org/index.php?view=taiga_news&tn_ID=59