Winter. Secrets of survival of plants and animals in the most severe season

Since the onset of winter radically affects the state of one of the most important components of all living things - water, no less strong changes should occur in physiology and animal behavior in response to environmental changes. Some creatures survive through the development of special substances, others remain in constant movement to maintain body temperature. After avoiding the threat of freezing to death, animals should still have time to find food during its lack or to stock up in advance during summer abundance. The famous American naturalist Bernd Heinrich describes strategies to which caresses, flying, squirrels, cowls, turtles, water rodents, frogs, insects, hamsters, bats, butterflies, bees, bees and many other representatives of the animal kingdom, to survive in harsh, resort to. winter conditions. Perfectly illustrated by the author’s drawings and filled with inexhaustible love for nature, this book covers the features of animal and plant behavior in the coldest season