Creatures in the swedish forests (part 1)
I have listed a couple of animals (with description) that are very attractive to tourists who are visiting sweden every year in hope of seeing theese animals.
The Brown Bear
The brown bear is most common in the nortest parts of sweden and during the winter it hiberates in a den, made of moss and twigs or something similar to that. This bear can weigh up to 350 kilos! that's a lot of bear.
And it also get's it's cubs during the winter.
Before the freezing-cold winter is comming to sweden the bear gains a lot of weigh and bodyfat, by eating different kind of berries and some other stuff it can find in the swedish forrests :P .
The bear is not hunted in Sweden until it becomes a threat to civilian people or damaging farm-animals like sheeps or whatever you can think of. But it hasn't always been like this, the bear hunting was more common back in the old swedish days but now it's a protected animal to preserve it and not eradicate it.
A very important thing to know it's that the bear can attack and even kill a human if it feels threatened by the man.
The wolverine
The wolverine is rare in Sweden and therefore it's also a protected animal and I even think this animal is one of the most threathened animals in Sweden.
It's a predator and is eating birds or mammals in the summer and during the winter it also can eat reindeers that are killed by itself or after another animal has killed.
It's a really shy animal so it's hard to get a good look at it.
The wolverine is not that big, it can weigh up to 30 Kilos.
The Elk (Moose)
The elk is higly connected to Sweden for tourists and it's alot of people every year who travels to Sweden and goes on Elk-safari, just to see this creatures :P Especially germans are really liking theese animals, don't ask me why I guess they think they're pretty awsome because there is no elks in Germany ? Back to the topic, The elk lives mainly in the whole country, maybe they are more rare in the most southern parts of sweden but in the nature around my hometown Kalmar the elks are really common and are causing hundreds of traffic-accidents every year as well (just so you know) .
The elks are pretty big and can weigh up to 700 kilos so think bigger than a big horse or something like it :P Despite it's size it's an shy animal and they don't attack people, normaly, it has happened sometime I think but it's not often you hear about something like that.
If you ever will drive a car in sweden on highways and simple roads and spots a sign like this one above you may pay an extra attention on the road because this sign means that the risk for that an elk is running across the road is bigger than normal, so heads up :P
A little funny thing about theese signs is that the Germans used to take them down from the roads and take them home. But that was back in the days and I would be very surprised if I saw someone do that :P
Anyway that was al from me no at this moment :P
Cya :P
The Brown Bear
The brown bear is most common in the nortest parts of sweden and during the winter it hiberates in a den, made of moss and twigs or something similar to that. This bear can weigh up to 350 kilos! that's a lot of bear.
And it also get's it's cubs during the winter.
Before the freezing-cold winter is comming to sweden the bear gains a lot of weigh and bodyfat, by eating different kind of berries and some other stuff it can find in the swedish forrests :P .
The bear is not hunted in Sweden until it becomes a threat to civilian people or damaging farm-animals like sheeps or whatever you can think of. But it hasn't always been like this, the bear hunting was more common back in the old swedish days but now it's a protected animal to preserve it and not eradicate it.
A very important thing to know it's that the bear can attack and even kill a human if it feels threatened by the man.
The wolverine
The wolverine is rare in Sweden and therefore it's also a protected animal and I even think this animal is one of the most threathened animals in Sweden.
It's a predator and is eating birds or mammals in the summer and during the winter it also can eat reindeers that are killed by itself or after another animal has killed.
It's a really shy animal so it's hard to get a good look at it.
The wolverine is not that big, it can weigh up to 30 Kilos.
The Elk (Moose)
The elk is higly connected to Sweden for tourists and it's alot of people every year who travels to Sweden and goes on Elk-safari, just to see this creatures :P Especially germans are really liking theese animals, don't ask me why I guess they think they're pretty awsome because there is no elks in Germany ? Back to the topic, The elk lives mainly in the whole country, maybe they are more rare in the most southern parts of sweden but in the nature around my hometown Kalmar the elks are really common and are causing hundreds of traffic-accidents every year as well (just so you know) .
The elks are pretty big and can weigh up to 700 kilos so think bigger than a big horse or something like it :P Despite it's size it's an shy animal and they don't attack people, normaly, it has happened sometime I think but it's not often you hear about something like that.
If you ever will drive a car in sweden on highways and simple roads and spots a sign like this one above you may pay an extra attention on the road because this sign means that the risk for that an elk is running across the road is bigger than normal, so heads up :P
A little funny thing about theese signs is that the Germans used to take them down from the roads and take them home. But that was back in the days and I would be very surprised if I saw someone do that :P
Anyway that was al from me no at this moment :P
Cya :P
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