Snowdrifts like animals: a zoo showed the height of snow in Siberian cities in animals.

Novosibirsk The zoo showed in an unusual way how much snow fell this winter in Siberia. A humorous "size chart" appeared on the zoo's public page, comparing the depth of snow cover to the height of animals.

This winter has been unusually snowy in Siberian regions, with the most precipitation fixed в Tomsk и Kemerovo — this is one of the record figures over the past 35 years. Novosibirsk At the same time, it became the record holder for the volume of snow removed: after the January snowfalls, more than two million cubic meters were removed from the city.

"For city services, such snowdrifts are a serious challenge, but for the zoo's inhabitants, this is not a problem, but real entertainment," note at the zoo.

So, the snowdrifts are in Tomsk withcompared to a maned wolf, Kemerovo - with a black jaguar, in Novosibirsk — with the snow leopard, and Barnaul got the dik-dik antelope. The least snow fell in Krasnoyarsk and Omsk — there the snowdrifts were compared to a meerkat and a fennec fox.

But it wasn't Siberia that set the country's record for snowfall this year, but Kamchatka: There are snowdrifts in the southern regions of the peninsula reached 2 meters, and if you measure them in animals, then this is almost the “height” of a Kamchatka bear.

Photo: Novosibirsk Zoo R.A. Shilo