A series of videos - "View from the shelter." It is no secret that special shelters are used for shooting animals in the wild at close range. In each case, the methods of masking may be different. But the main thing is how you can accurately fit into the surrounding landscape. In addition, you need to know the biological characteristics of the animal to be filmed. Some hear well, others see everything, and still others can quickly detect a person by smell. And, of course, good luck. It happens that animals allow themselves to be filmed, although they have already figured you out a long time ago. A lot of interesting things happen in nature.
These shallow, but not freezing reservoirs, with banks covered with dense grassy vegetation, are an ideal place for muskrats to live. The muskrat is also called the muskrat. Musky, because males have a gland that produces a secret with a musky smell. Well, a rat, because in appearance it resembles a rat. Although the size is much larger. And approaching the size of a beaver. Although the muskrat is not closely related to either the rat or the beaver.
Muskrats, like all rodents, are very prolific. In a year, a female can bring up to 4 offspring. And in one litter there are usually 6-8 cubs.
But the death rate is also high. Here try and predators, and disease, and the weather. In the first year of life, almost 80 percent of young animals die.
The muskrat feeds mainly on aquatic plants. If plant food becomes insufficient, animal food enters - mollusks, frogs, fish fry.