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Heinrich, Bernd, 1940-

Winter world : the ingenuity of animal survival / Bernd Heinrich.

[Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Audio, ℗2009.

8 audio discs (10.5 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.

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Explores the winter survival tactics of animals, including flying squirrels, grizzly bears, torpid turtles, and insects, revealing how these animals alter and adapt to an array of extraordinary conditions.

Animals -- Wintering.

Audiobooks.

Foster, Mel.

Unabridged.

Read by Mel Foster.

Fire and ice -- Snow and the subnivian space -- A late winter walk -- Tracking a weasel -- Nests and dens -- Flying squirrels in a huddle -- Hibernating quirrels : 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?

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