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  2. Bud - Wikipedia

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    European beech (Fagus sylvatica) bud. In botany, a bud is an undeveloped or embryonic shoot and normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of a stem.Once formed, a bud may remain for some time in a dormant condition, or it may form a shoot immediately.

  3. Dormancy - Wikipedia

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    During winter dormancy, plant metabolism comes to a virtual standstill, due in part to low temperatures that slow chemical activity. [1]Dormancy is a period in an organism's life cycle when growth, development, and (in animals) physical activity are temporarily stopped.

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  5. List of nocturnal animals - Wikipedia

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    Crepuscular, a classification of animals that are active primarily during twilight, making them similar to nocturnal animals. Diurnality, plant or animal behavior characterized by activity during the day and sleeping at night. Cathemeral, a classification of organisms with sporadic and random intervals of activity during the day or night.

  6. White-tailed ptarmigan - Wikipedia

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    In the summer it is speckled in gray, brown and white whereas in winter it is wholly white. At all times of year the wings, belly and tail are white. The white-tailed ptarmigan has a diet of buds, leaves, flowers and seeds. The nest is a simple depression in the ground in which up to eight eggs are laid. After hatching, the chicks soon leave ...

  7. Chionophile - Wikipedia

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    However, when animals live in an environment that is inhospitable for much of the year, then hibernation is not necessary. One of the few animals that does so are lemmings, which have a mass migration after they come out of dormancy. However, most animals living in the arctic would still be active, even during the most brutal times of winter.

  8. Hibernaculum (zoology) - Wikipedia

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    A hibernaculum (plural form: hibernacula) (Latin, "tent for winter quarters") is a place in which an animal seeks refuge, such as a bear using a cave to overwinter.The word can be used to describe a variety of shelters used by many kinds of animals, including insects, toads, lizards, snakes, bats, rodents, and primates of various species.

  9. What happens at Binder Park Zoo during the winter? - AOL

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    All animals remain on-site throughout the year in their various homes. Jasmine, a snow leopard, alternates between indoor and outdoor areas along with Raj, the zoo's male snow leopard at Binder ...