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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.
In this video, one of Tennessee’s newest and smallest black bears is learning how to navigate the swiftly-rushing streams that will form a major part of its life and food source.
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.
The winter twigs are distinctive among North American trees, being long and slender (15–20 millimetres or 5 ⁄ 8 – 3 ⁄ 4 inch by 2–3 mm or 3 ⁄ 32 – 1 ⁄ 8 in) with two rows of overlapping scales on the buds. Beech buds are distinctly thin and long, resembling cigars; this characteristic makes beech trees relatively easy to identify.
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 ...
And while you can often get smaller animals to safety with you, large animals are a whole different story. If you have time to evacuate before a hurricane, try and get all barn animals out of the ...
The offspring or new tubers are attached to a parent tuber or form at the end of a hypogeogenous (initiated below ground) rhizome. In the autumn the plant dies, except for the new offspring tubers, which have one dominant bud that in spring regrows a new shoot producing stems and leaves; in summer the tubers decay and new tubers begin to grow.
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