Animals That Hibernate During Winter
There are plenty of other animals that hibernate though.
Animals that hibernate during winter. Unlike animals that stir regularly during hibernation bears can go for 100 days or so without needing to wake to consume or pass anything and they can be aroused much more easily than typical hibernators. Also some fish stay active in cold water during the winter. Bears go into a torpor during winter months only if they live in cold areas.
Other hibernating animals do not experience major changes in temperature heart rate and breathing. However new or young queen bumblebees will stay alive and hibernate in burrows underground. Animals that hibernate during winter.
Other hibernating animals do not experience major changes in temperature heart rate and breathing. Smaller animals of prey may move to warmer locations or hibernate. The largest hibernators are the bears.
There are only 4 species of bear that are hibernators including American Black Bear Asiatic Black Bear Brown Bear and Polar Bear. The most popular images that come to mind of animals that hibernate are bears ground squirrels and chipmunks. Like many other reptiles and amphibians lizards hibernate during the winter because they are cold-blooded animals.
Read on to learn more about the North American animals that hibernate and how they do so. There is both a color and a black and white version of the book. Do you know other animals that hibernate in the winter.
The next page has the animal sleeping inside of it. The animals body temperature drops and its heartbeat and breathing slow down. Some animals which hibernate are jumping mouse little brown bat the eastern chipmunk some species of ground squirrels wood frog deer mice skunks hamsters prairie dogs and hedgehogs.