During the four or five warm months of the year, when the dormouse is active, they need to have time to find a pair, make a nest, breed, and accumulate as much nutrients as possible in the body before wintering. Therefore, they eat large amounts of calories and acorns. A hard shell of hazelnuts sleeps in seven minutes, and the kernel eats in three minutes. Often the animal bites and throws more nuts than it eats. As a result, it seems that the dormouse eats too much.
Dormouse wake up when spring finally enters its rights and at night a positive temperature is established. Usually this is the second decade of May – the beginning of June. Only at this time there is an opportunity to see the animals in the forest: males attracted by the femoral fluids of females, organize real battles, squeak and chirp, jump from branch to branch, and at night sing, trilling like birds. The males leave their fragrant marks on the branches of the trees, which even a person can smell.
