The Long Nap
Deep, long term dormancy is called this
What is Hibernation?
The average grizzly bear gains this much weight to prepare for hibernation.
What are 400-500 pounds?
This species makes the longest terrestrial migration in the world.
What are caribou?
This local frog species has antifreeze chemicals in their blood that help them freeze solid in the winter and reawaken in the spring.
What is the wood frog?
These whales will make journeys of over 3000 miles to warmer waters to give birth and overwinter.
What are humpback whales?
Dormancy in reptiles and amphibians is called this.
What is brumation?
What is 50% of their body weight?
This seabird species holds the current record for longest migration.
What is the Arctic Tern?
This grizzly bear won this years "fat bear contest", packing on pounds for hibernation despite a broken and disfigured jaw.
Who is "Chunk" or "Bear 32"?
A fox's winter coat can keep it's body at this temperature or higher.
What is 90-100 degrees farenheit?
The name of short term dormancy for periods of reduced activity
What is torpor?
What is 50-100 pounds?
Only half of this bird family don't survive migration.
What are songbirds/passerines?
This bird species changes colors for the changing seasons, keeping them protected from predators during the winter and summer months.
What is the ptarmigan?
Beaver lodges are extremely insulated and even when temperatures dip below freezing, the lodge never drops below this temperature.
What is 32 degrees?
This is the name of dormancy in hot dry periods in an environment.
What is Aestivation?
This insect species also gains weight and bulks for the winter.
What is the ladybug?
We all know about the Monarch Butterfly migration, but this species has the longest individual migration of any insect, flying across oceans for over 11,000 mile long journeys.
What is the wandering glider dragonfly?
This species of local small hawks no longer migrate, but use bird feeders to hunt prey over the winter.
What are Cooper's Hawks?
The blubber of seals keeps their internal body heat around this temperature, their fat and blubber serving as insulation that acts as a wet suit.
A state of dormancy that is actually developmental arrest, used by insects.
What is diapause?
This rodent species gains 50-60% of their body weight in fat storing pounds before entering suspended animation for the winter, breathing once per minute and become almost unwakable.
What is the ground squirrel?
What is the Great Nile Migration?
This species has the longest typical hibernation time for mammals, once a historical delicacy despite it's small rodent stature.
What is the European Edible Dormouse?
Counter current heat exchange (blood moving in opposite directions to conserve heat and recycle energy) keeps these animals feet warm on the ice.
What are waterfowl/seabirds?