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What are the methods for animals to keep out the cold?

One to six kinds of animals keep out the cold in winter.

How do all kinds of animals living in nature keep out the cold in cold winter? Surprisingly, in order to survive, they all "invented" a set of good methods to resist the cold.

1, the tiger runs to keep out the cold: the tiger will run back and forth when it feels cold, and its attention is very concentrated. Even if rabbits run around, they will not stop until it is warm.

2. Gorillas move stones to keep out the cold: once the cold comes to the mountain forest and the gorillas living there can't resist it, they will run to sunny places and move big stones back and forth until they sweat.

3. Wild deer fight to keep out the cold: There is a kind of wild deer living in northern Russia. When it is cold, they will find a relatively remote place and fight with each other in twos and threes until it warms up.

4, rabbits hit the stomach to keep out the cold: In winter, in order to keep out the cold, the rabbit's fur will grow long and dense, and the subcutaneous fat layer will also thicken a lot. When it is particularly cold, they will huddle together and beat each other's stomachs to keep warm, which is very interesting.

5. White mice roll to keep out the cold: There is a white mouse in the eastern Alps, and its body is bigger than a cat. When the weather is cold, they will curl up into a meatball, roll down from the top of the mountain together, and then run back to the top of the mountain until it is warm.

6. Squirrels climb trees to keep out the cold: In the forests of northern India, when heavy snow covers the mountains, the squirrels living there run down from the trees to keep out the cold, and then climb up again, and so on until they are warm.

Second, three common ways for animals to spend the winter

1, directly into the winter.

Most of these animals are warm-blooded animals. In winter, their body temperature is basically the same as that in summer, and it is basically unchanged. Such as sheep, pigs, cows, horses, monkeys and birds. However, before winter comes, they will gain weight and put on thick warm winter clothes: animals shed their skins and birds shed their skins. Some animals store food when winter comes, such as voles.

2. North-South migration.

Birds will migrate back and forth in spring and autumn, such as geese, swallows, red-crowned cranes and swans. This kind of bird is called migratory bird. However, some wild animals or insects will migrate, such as Tibetan antelopes and American monarch butterflies in Hoh Xil, Tibet, China.

Step 3 hibernate.

When the temperature drops, the body temperature of hibernating animals is just kept at the level to avoid freezing to death. When hibernating, they can go without eating or drinking for several months and will not starve to death. There are marmots, squirrels, hedgehogs, bears, snails, snakes, mountain rat, frogs and mosquitoes. Insects and frogs use antifreeze similar to cars to protect themselves in cold winter.

Spring, summer, autumn and winter, cold and warm, growth and collection, the cycle of heaven. Animals spend the winter like this:

Squirrels dig holes near winter to bury the food they find, and then sleep in tree holes in winter. When they are hungry, they get up and dig out the food buried in the ground to eat. In addition, they can put 18 melon seeds on their cheeks and fill them before going to bed. But their food is often dug up and buried by other peeping squirrels, and sometimes they forget what they buried.

Butterflies form hard pupa shells in winter, and fat pupae are wrapped inside. Because they contain more fat, it is not a problem to prevent cold and freezing.

Red-crowned crane is a special product in China, mainly produced in Heilongjiang Province, and migrates to Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Shandong, Taiwan Province and other places for the winter every autumn.

The giant salamander has a solitary life habit and doesn't like to live in groups. It is quiet in the shade and lazy in activities. When it's cold in winter, you go into hibernation and can't eat or move. Bloom woke up in the warm spring and began to feed during the day and at night.

Sparrows and crows don't fly away in winter, but in autumn they have to take off their old feathers and put on thick and dense new ones to resist the cold.

Frogs, snakes and turtles don't store food. Find a shelter from the wind and cold when you are full, and sleep until spring. They hibernate for the winter, and hundreds of snakes often gather together.

Pangolin is hard. It wants to dig a hole dozens of meters deep and get into it for the winter. It has to prepare thousands of termites as food for the winter. Others, such as ants and voles, store a lot of food before winter comes, repair their nests, and hide in their nests in winter.

Swallows and geese have to fly from cold places to warm places for the winter, and then fly back the next spring.