ANIMALS
AND PLANTS OF PY
The marten
The marten is a champion marathon runner. It can travel 25 km in one night of winter, it has legs of 9 cm. The marten lives the forests. Its color is maroon, its chest is gilded. The day it rests in the nests of the squirrels or the corbels and in the holes of tree. It drives out all kinds of rodents.
The fox
The fox is carnivorous, it lives under the ground, it moves a lot. The fox sleeps in a large room which it dug at the end of a long gallery. The fox is russet-red or brown; it drives out the shrew, campagnol etc. The foxes are solitary hunters
The Ptarmigan
In fact the partridge of the snows passes its life around 2 500 m of altitude, winter like summer, nourishing fruits and buds of the shrubs of mountain. In winter it is very white; in summer, it is brown, russet-red, but its wings remain white in spring and in autumn it takes a russet-red white aspect.
The Goshawk
The Goshawk is a rather large diurnal raptor with long tail whose wings are rather short and a little round. It lives in the forests, the edges and the clearings. Its short wings and its long tail enable him very well to continue with its prey into the forest even in the undergrowth and the clearings. In hunting, it usually flies to the lower part of the ridge of the trees, often close to the ground. It surprises its prey and captures it by carrying out a fast dive. The Goshawk is a Crafty one, it sits on a pole in the foliage of a tree from where he can watch for without being seen. It attacks all kinds of birds and several species of mammals. It is one of our more beautiful raptors.
