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Answers: 1-groundhog; 2-turtle; shiver, it has to eat over 35 percent of its body weight a day! people do to stay warm: It shivers. To have the energy to 3-Chipmunk; 4-black-capped chickadee “cap” in its name, but it wears no winter gear. It does what between snack breaks! them like insulation. This particular little bird has the word all fall. They go back to hibernating feathers and create a warm bubble of air that surrounds From time to time they

they can eat some of the food they saved
their body temperature during the winter so

their body temperature lowers until it becomes
to hibernate. Their heart rate declines and
These mammals start to put on weight in
These backyard rodents go into their burrows
us how many more weeks of winter to expect).
the late summer so they are well conditioned

They emerge in March, though the males briefly come out
in early February to scope out potential mates (and tell
hibernating. While hibernating, their body temperature drops
per minute, and their breaths per minute go from 16 down to 2!
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adaptations of four specific animals.
different ways of keeping warm. They puff up their
Birds that do not fly south to warmer climates have