Depending on where you live, winter can be tough to get through. It’s cold, it gets dark early, the weather’s messy. You can head South — or you can just turn up the heat and try not to get depressed. But animals – other animals, that is – have winter survival tricks you wouldn’t believe. So maybe we should get some winter survival lessons from them? Naturalist Bernd Heinrich tells says that animal winter survival is a marvel.
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