Russia has long been inaccessible to the outside world.
Now open borders reveals secrets.
Its heart is a place full of surprises.
Siberia.
There's just a wasteland ice cream but also a region with diverse fauna,
a precarious beauty and endangered animals.
The animals and the earth from this place are amazing.
This is Siberia.
Wild Russia SIBERIA
70 d times greater than Britain and a population doubles,
Russia is one of the largest wildernesses in the world.
It covers 10,000 kilometers, ie nearly half the globe.
Siberia occupies about 10% of the total land surface of the planet.
Although synonymous with frost,
in some parts temperatures can reach 40 ° C.
But when it comes to Siberia, think of snow.
Here winters are very heavy.
The whole Siberia is covered by snow from November to February.
Sometimes, the layer of snow reached 80 cm and depth.
Life goes on and in winter
just that when animals here are doing hard.
Ravens welcomes the coming morning, you
but wolves with their thick fur, do not care about the cold.
These social animals live and hunt in packs,
Haiti in good times, can number more than 30 individuals.
A large domneºte Haiti on a territory of 13,000 square kilometers until,
ie five times more than Paris.
Wolves scare a ºoim which in turn scare crows.
It seems that the 13 million square kilometers of Siberia are not enough for everyone!
Howling tighten Haiti spoken to them on wolves others to stay away.
The howl can be heard and ten kilometers.
Their smell fine help them find carrion or live leeks.
Each wolf can eat 9kg of meat and travel up to 200 km per day.
The lake is frozen. Wolves and eats ice to quench your thirst.
In northern Siberia's Iakuþia, idyllic and picturesque region.
E and coldest place in the Northern Hemisphere.
Here, temperatures can drop to -70 ° C and up.
Horses take winter iakuþi chest.
To survive cold winters, try to be as little creep.
Dig in the snow with their hooves heavy grass unearthing freezing.
In March, several mares eat for two.
They face or June when the weather's improvement.
A dominant male will mate with several mares.
Over time, they developed a thick skin and a thick fur that protects them from the cold.
The fat accumulated over the summer gives them energy during the winter months,
but not all horses will survive.
Far to the north, another animal struggling to survive.
Siberian white crane, a very rare bird, who was endangered.
Live only 3,500 cranes in the world
And only four in West Siberia.
The pairs that make chickens are valuable.
China spends midwinter and then fly nearly 5,000 kilometers,
to multiply in the Russian tundra, isolated and wild.
As little birds make their monogamy partners are hard to find.
After forming a couple, both parents tighten grow chickens.
The female lays two eggs, but only one chick will survive.
With the diminution wintering sites, and decrease their chances of survival.
Elsewhere, shy animals hide in the shadows of the forest.
With his face as a kangaroo and vampire teeth,
croieºte tighten musk road through the forest in search of lichens.
Only males have horns like the corner instead.
Their length increases with age of the animal.
But other end of musk is even more interesting.
Male musk gland produces an irresistible fragrance for females
And for fabricanþii perfume.
Although females have the faint smell musky manages to attract.
Because businesses with musk deer numbers greatly decreased.
Only two-thirds of women each year are chickens
so that the population is slowly reîntregeºte.
After that hrãneºte, musk cud.
Regurgitate food and chew it again to digest it.
Although musk seems relaxed and is attentive to what happens.
A clearing neighboring benefit from crows of death of pregnant mares.
Can I clean the meat to the bone, with their sharp beaks.
Usually, ravens live in flocks and are ferocious and intelligence.
They can remove over 30 different sounds
but wolves howling even scares them.
How wolves do not hibernate, permanently looking for food.
Autumn and winter packs moves from place to place in search of food.
Guide the odor of finely hunts steal or eating carrion.
Doing whatever it takes to fill and burþile.
Starving wolves prey ferocious attacks that scare and another.
For birds, the time for the fun.
Like mammals, birds like to play, and the Ravens are pretty silly.
Tighten permit. Ravens adults have no natural enemies.
Now quickly cleans snow and ready.
Or almost ready ...
Taiga, northern woods of conifers, covering Siberia.
It's the biggest forest in the world, stretching across 7,000,000 square kilometers.
Part they northeastern Iakuþia, earth stud,
get up in the Arctic Circle.
Iakuþi horses are not the only animals wandering around.
Iakuþiei move an army across the hills untiring.
Reni.
This flock has 1,000 heads.
The reindeer or caribou are fãcuþi to cold.
Have hair tapered hollow heat that keeps the body.
The reindeer did not come here by chance.
It's an annual meeting.
Iakuþii are an ancient people,
migrated north to this region 700 years ago.
Most are now in the city,
but 400,000 of them still live a nomadic herdsmen living.
The grassland must reach us before the snowmelt,
otherwise they will be caught in the trap water.
In summer, reindeer must îngraºe to withstand the winter.
The chief of the tribe throws salt, a delicacy makes it very loved.
But it's dangerous to walk through a forest reindeer antlers.
When you go to the shelter reindeer, shepherds celebrating ...
... eating a reindeer.
I begin with reindeer tongue.
As in other parts of the world cattle, reindeer are an important part of the lifestyle of iakuþilor.
All depend on them.
The reindeer give food, clothes, leather and more.
Free reindeer wandered more than any other land animal,
about 5000 km annually
And can run at speeds up to 80 km / h.
Summer can form herds of tens of thousands of heads.
But iakuþilor reach them and this little flock.
Spring when it warms up outside, rivers begin to thaw.
The birds use these lazy pieces of ice on barges post.
Call Ratheiser, golden-eye, may fish in the hole in the ice.
Soon, out fishing in force.
But they are not the only ones that face the cold waters.
Cufundacii while diving beetles are black and shellfish.
Thaw birds gather in parts of the river.
Now back to life and a very strong amphibian.
Salamandra siberianã.
Thanks to some compounds in the blood
salamander survives and -40 ° C.
Ice cream can remain for years. When dezgheaþã, good as new.
Headed for the water, where they will mate and deposit eggs,
before freeze again in the next season.
Siberian salamander is one of the few species in the world
Also you can survive a frost.
At 150 kilometers away in southern steppes,
landscape changes radically.
African Plains take place similar to pine forests.
AIIC, wild horses run free.
Horses with small groups divide the camels
And the odd gazelle with guºã.
Once, in Central Asia lived tens of thousands of gas.
They împuþinat because hunters and habitat loss.
Wander through the plain, eating grass and thickets.
When Ruth's neck male inflates, hence its name.
A frightened gazelle þâºneºte next foe with 60 km / h.
Slips easily through the border fence from Mongolia.
In the southwest, bordering along the 3400 km with Mongolia
the land is mountainous.
Altai Mountains rises to heaven to 4,500 meters
And they are over two times longer than the Alps.
In this environment arid, windswept live sheep largest in the world.
Muflonii cântãresc circa 160 kg.
Preþuiþi are hunting for their size.
The male appears alongside his harem quiet.
The life of an alpha male is hard even in the absence hunters.
There is a contender.
Increasing male horns lasts three years
And go up to 190 centimeters long
And weighing up to 20 kg.
Group of women draw attention to a contender.
Alpha male is not impressed.
The young will see what it means to be male top.
Pretender not beat forcibly, but only the dominant male tested judgment.
Domneºte alpha male over a harem of 25 women,
and new veniþii waiting on the sidelines.
This ram feels chance to mate.
Reflects lips tighten, thus sniffing pheromones in the air,
sign that a female is in heat.
It's here, but do not know who it is.
Try tighten the sexiest moves but the girls did not feel like it.
Finally get a prize past.
No matter the mating season will have many partners.
He's not the only one who recognizes a good thing by smell.
Appear, and other pretendenþi.
Try to furiºeze when the alpha male is not careful.
It tighten realize what is happening.
Thick neck absorbs the force of the blow.
The brain, under joint horns, it is protected.
The male defends the rights and tighten tighten moves harem.
But one of pretendenþi Keep that easy.
Aries can collide at speeds of 100 km / h.
Finally, one last indicates the end of the fight.
At the coming of spring floods starting in Siberia.
Over the millennia, the water valleys cut through the rocks and forests.
In southeastern Siberia, much of it gets
in the freshwater lake seventh-largest in the world.
It has 636 km long and 80 km in the widest point.
This is Lake Baikal.
It contains 20% of all freshwater in the world.
Both contain all five Great Lakes of North America combined.
The water temperature rarely rises above 8 ° C
And the place is not so enticing as it looks.
That does not bother only freshwater seals in the world.
Focile de Baikal.
It is not known how they got in this remote area.
It may have evolved from ringed seals, 500,000 years ago,
when the Arctic Ocean was stretched south to Siberia.
After thousands of years of isolation, were transformed into a new species.
In the middle of the lake is Ushkani islands.
Seals made their colonies here, where people can not be hunted.
After a swim, nothing compares with a dry on rocks on the shore.
But it's hard to get on them only with fins.
Underwater however, hydrodynamic seals are true torpedoes.
Swim at speeds up to 25 km / h.
The oldest and deepest lake in the world, over 1,500 meters,
It was formed 20 million years ago,
when two tectonic plates were removed.
Still moving away at the speed of 6mm per year.
Colony sponges here resembles a coral reef.
Survives and if the lake is covered with ice.
60% of the animals in the lake just live here.
Some animals are small,
but others can greatly increase the oxygen-rich waters grace.
Some amphipods from the lake can reach a length of 90 mm.
In the depths, life and death succeed peacefully.
Snails eat a rotten fish.
Others mate in the cool waters.
On the surface, Lake Baikal is preparing for an invasion.
Vin tricopterele!
The larvae stay under water for almost a year,
then turn into adults and tighten take off.
Musculiþe attract millions of much larger animals.
Mate flies frantically lakeside.
Brown Bears come to eat this feast full of protein.
Flies will live only a week, so it should quickly submit egg in water, before dying.
For ten days, Bears seek them, whether alive or dead.
Bears 40 kg of food daily consumption
And flies are a pleasant supplement to their diet vegetarian.
Many are attracted to this ephemeral delight.
But even when so many bite, giving in front of the little big.
Animals thrive in forests around the lake,
but a different population and prosperous in the middle of the lake.
1.5 km from shore is the island Olhom.
It's the largest of the 25 islands of the lake.
It's about the size of Dubai.
ªerpii managed to cross the water and populated the island.
This snake is not venomous ºoricar,
but keep under control the number of rodents.
The herbs away from the rocks, a family of gopher stands guard.
Four brothers, aged three weeks, began to explore the world.
They are as vigilant as Meerkats Africa.
I'm careful even when feeding.
When you do not eat grass, cleans gophers are among them.
Curãþatul is important to them, otherwise the insects would eat alive.
Their fur is full of cãpuºe and other insects.
Perhaps however are not so nice ... the
Not only gophers have problems.
In Lake Baikal, 100,000 seals live.
Soon, there will not be all.
Hundreds flock of seals on the rocks around the island.
Shaking to warm stones and looking where to sit in the sun,
but the place is tight.
Seals lucky crowd, but that does not necessarily mean happiness.
Soon frustration embraces them all.
Seals have no natural enemies, so we fight each other.
But it's better to Bath stone than try to climb on it.
This place is not exclusive, and other guest receives.
In the evening, a cold mist covers the lake,
Bears while Ratheiser and eats last tricoptere.
Brown Bears like to go out hunting at dawn or sunset.
They have a very good smell, sniffing a leº from over 3 km away.
Not only with this capability.
Two predators want to get the same corpse.
But a 50kg wolf will never not be a bear 500 kg.
Arriving first predators, the wolf can steal,
a big toe bone.
But make a mistake pausing to look back.
Fortunately, hunger attracts bears to the prize.
Tonight, both were part of the booty.
At the end of August, summer turns in autumn
And the lands around the lake began to change.
Mushrooms growing on the wood soft and rotten.
Moist soil of the forest, back to life.
Meriºoarele and blueberries inflates.
It's harvest time.
Although Siberian veveriþele living on the ground, their life depends on the pin.
One tighten fill sãculeþii cheeks and the other waiting for an opportunity.
Winner takes all in the tough world of those who gather pine seeds.
Veveriþele must collect enough seeds and nuts
to get them through the winter.
Each will collect 4 kg of food each lair,
sãculeþii transported there in the cheeks.
It's a tough job, and competition always watching you.
But veveriþele Siberian gather most.
This award rests red ant colony.
All ants in the world weigh about how all people together.
I am a force to be feared.
The workers carrying permanently leftovers.
Ladybug is just one of the 60,000 insects
muºuroi caught and carried it every day.
When mãrºãluiesc ants, other insects run.
Birch bark of slippery road will lead to the death of this beetle.
Ants overwhelmed him.
I wet the formic acid that pierce her armor.
Then it apart and put in muºuroi Cara, piece by piece.
In November, the distant peaks of the snow cover again.
In curâd, it will snow everywhere.
In Saian Mountains at 3,500 m height, near the border with Mongolia,
Siberian ibecºii foraging.
Supravieþuiesc eating grass on sunny slopes.
Some of them have different appetites.
A group of women inspect tighten male.
Foreplay consists of 30 minutes of shots, bellowing and urinating.
When the alpha male is not careful, a young pretender, trying to enter by force in action.
It's clumsy advances alarmed the chief, who is leaving the group.
At altitude, temperatures are still low.
Now the frost returned in all Siberia.
In some places, temperatures will drop to -60 ° C.
The waters of Lake Baikal is covered by gheþuri.
Soon, the layer of ice will almost one meter thick.
Snow covers the mountains and Sleeping Beauty.
But for some animals, the fun is just beginning.
Mistreþii.
Those animals with rough hair do not care about the cold.
Winter thicker fur have to deal snow.
A disc cartilaginous snout turn them into a digging tool.
Sapa easily in ice or snow, dezgropându-and dinner.
Mistreþii are omnivorous, so eat anything else they find.
So assists and ecosystem, scattered seminþeþele territory.
And purceluºilor like gamboling, but they are sensitive to cold.
Finally, it will increase their fur and reeds.
While aþipesc adults, young mistreþii tighten courage put to the test
preparing for the opportunity to become alpha males.
They will compete for females only when they meet five years.
Until then, tighten will permanently improve fighting skills.
Will remain with the Group until maturity.
During frost,
Lake Baikal's surface not paying, but resembles some broken crystals.
The layers of ice is moving and break.
Adult seals spend their winter in the water alone.
But in April, company.
This is the first chicken that comes to the surface.
La focile de Baikal, înþãrcarea e bruscã.
Mother starve during the eight weeks that hrãneºte chicken,
then abandons him to the surface.
Soon, and other chicken will come out to the surface, and ice.
It just waiting to explore the world.
Extra fat keeps them warm so the surface, as well as in water,
where ice caves formed a paradise.
But Siberia's dreadful reputation only half of the story.
The region is very beautiful and very diverse, rivaling any place on earth.
The Russian earth with mountains and lakes, forests and plains,
It can be described by one word amazing:
Siberia.