Morphological features of terrestrial and semi-aquatic fur-bearing animals

The review sets out the colour variation of animals in relation to environmental conditions, as well as indexes of heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, intestines and density of indumentum, which in terrestrial and semi-aquatic animals differ not only according to relation to water, but also to the type of feeding. The indexes of heart, lungs, liver and kidneys in semi-aquatic and terrestrial rodents are significantly lower than the indexes of predators. Length of the intestine is much more in rodents and predators euryphages.