Winter World The Ingenuity of Animal Survival

Name: Winter World The Ingenuity of Animal Survival
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ISBN: 9780060957377

ISBN-10: 0060957379

ISBN-13: 9780060957377

Edition: N/A

Authors: Bernd Heinrich

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From award-winning writer and biologist Bernd Heinrich, an intimate, accessible and eloquent illumination of animal survival in Winter. From flying squirrels to grizzly bears, torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter their environment to accommodate our physical limitations, animals are adaptable to an amazing range of conditions--i.e., radical changes in a creature's physiology take place to match the demands of the environment. Winter provides an especially remarkable situation, because of how drastically it affects the most elemental component of…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 12/23/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Introduction


A Note on Terms and Definitions


Fire and Ice


Snow and the Subnivian Space


A Late Winter Walk


Tracking a Weasel


Nests and Dens


Flying Squirrels in a Huddle


Hibernating Squirrels (Heating Up to Dream)


The Kinglet's Feathers


The Kinglet's Winter Fuel


Hibernating Birds


Torpid Turtles under Ice


Iced-in Water Rodents


Frozen Frogs on Ice


Insects: From the Diversity to the Limits


Mice in Winter


Supercool(ed) Houseguests (with and without Antifreeze)


Of Bats and Butterflies and Cold Storage


Aggregating for Winter


Winter Flocks


Berries Preserved


Bears in Winter


Storing Food


Bees' Winter Gamble


Winter Buds


The Kinglets' Key?


References