• Ladybugs, preparing for hibernation, concentrate in vast numbers on Bear Mountain, Green Mountain and other summits in the foothills. Monarch butterflies leave for Mexico. Box elder bugs and other ...
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Lots of arctic animals, including bears, woodchucks and chipmunks, hibernate through the cold winter months. During hibernation, these animals aren't sleeping. Instead, their heart rate, body ...
The eastern chipmunk lives where oak trees flourish, which includes all but southwestern Minnesota. These 10-inch ground squirrels are common, conspicuous and tolerant of human observers. They ...
Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Mammals and birds are endotherms, which means they generate their own body heat through relatively high metabolic rates. That high metabolism requires ...
For a good chunk of the summer, I have been able to monitor the activity of one particular visitor to the feeding station down by my Thinking Chair a little more closely than most of the others.
A chipmunk won. A week before the groggy groundhog is supposed to wake up and see his shadow (or not), a bright-eyed chipmunk bounced up out of hibernation into my backyard. It was a beautifully sunny ...
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