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The Common butterwort is one of the few nothern carnivorous plant.The edges of its green and yellow leaves are rolled-in and sticky. The 25000 glands on the leaf's surface secrete enzymes that dissolve the nutrients of any insect that lands on the leaf.
In the past, the common butterwort was used in making sour milk. Its leaves were placed in a strainer, through which the freshly milked milk was poured. After a few days, the milk became viscous and solidified into sour milked.
The artic stern relies on its vision to hunt for small fish.
His hunt requires light. This means that the artic tern spend its winter in the summery and bright Antartic and nests during the nothern summer.
The 40 000 km journey the bird makes every year ensures that it has eight months of free hunting time under the midnight sun.
After hibernating all winter, the bear hunts mice, its favourite meal during spring, wich has a difficult time running away in the soft snow. Preparing for winter, the king of the forest eats a lots, especially berries. It has to stuck in a huge number of berries, as it needs about one third of its weight, between 50 and 100 kg, of fat to manage through the winter. Great! Nature does it right! In Finland, berries can be found in abundance in mid-July.
Reindeer mate in October. This is the rutting period: the males fight each other to impress the females. The males do not eat during this period, although they are very active. And sometimes, they forget to feed and dies in the cold winter.
In winter, it loses its antlers.
In sping, Reinder eat different types of lichens from the ground or beard moss from the trees.
The mother can delay giving birth if the weather conditions are not favourable. On the contrary, if the food is insufficient, it can bring the birth forward by one month.
The Sami reindeer spring migration is a unique tradition in which reindeer move from winter pastures to summer pastures.The Sami are the only indigenous people living in the European Union.The Sami move on snowmobiles while following the reindeer. They have traditional clothes, their own language.There is still 85 000 alive.
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