Animals are mixed up as our politicians
Are more grumpy bears, moose attacked by ticks, deer stuff themselves with grass and white hares run for their lives like never before.
This unusually warm December disrupts the animal world.
Bears do not sleep, but there are more berries outside. Do they have enough food? They like to be buried by the snow under a fallen tree. "Unable to winter as well, as the snow has not covered all of Quebec.
Moose, deer Virginia, south-western Quebec are continually suck blood by winter ticks. The winter tick it continues to hold on and suck blood, since it is not paralyzed by the cold and buried in snow. Moose lose their hair by dint of scratching to get rid of. Some die.
As for hares, what they tremble with fear. Each late autumn, the coat of these small mammals turns white so they can hide in the snow during the winter. Results this year: they shine in snowless forests. Predators and hunters spot them from afar. Being a prey to white hairs these days "is not great", but they breed three or four times a year.
The deer and wild turkeys just have to bend down to eat grass, they do not need to scrape the snow. As against squirrels them gorge themselves so that some become obese this year. The soil is not frozen, herbivores still they continue to eat plant material on the ground, which will produce a hormonal imbalance animals.
