Explains what hibernation is and describes how different animals hibernate, including bears, toadfish, hedgehogs, and desert frogs.
Hibernation is one of nature's greatest miracles, allowing animals to sleep through periods of extreme cold and heat.
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Everybody at the station! It’s time for winter hibernation! The sweet rhyming text of this book will calm even the most rambunctious kids and have them dreaming about what it’s like to hibernate.
"Discusses the animal behavior of hibernation"--Provided by publisher.
Explores the practice of hibernation as a means for winter survival, discussing the habits of a variety of animals such as hummingbirds, bats, chipmunks, and rattlesnakes.
Discusses why animals hibernate and when and why this pattern occurs.
"Provides an explanation of what hibernation is including why animals hibernate, and how they do it."
The Physiology of Natural Hibernation
Utterly original.” —Adam Rex, author of The True Meaning of Smekday and the Cold Cereal Saga “Imagine Lord of the Flies as a comedy set in snowy terrain and you have The Great Hibernation: a hilarious, whip-smart page-turner you ...
Describes the ways different mammals hibernate, explaining the difference between true hibernators and light sleepers.