Hiders Seekers Finders Keepers: How Animals Adapt in Winter
When days grow short flowers fade and colors crumple to the ground all the hiders hide
As autumn weather cools and food becomes harder to find many animals look for a place to rest for the winter
They're under cover Eastern box turtles dig underground burrows and wait out winter in brumation similar to hibernation They lower their heart rate to five to ten beats per minute and stop breathing completely Instead they soak in oxygen through their skin 米 Wood frogs have a chilly twist on winter survival They tuck themselves into logs or leaf piles and practically freeze solid When warmer days return they defrost and hop back to life
burrowed deep Chipmunks slow down their bodily functions such as their heartbeat and breathing This slumbery state is called hibernation Bumblebee colonies die out in winter except for the queen bees who enter a state of rest called diapause the insect version of hibernation When the queens emerge in the spring they lay eggs and start entirely new colonies
