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Title: Winter World : The Ingenuity of Animal Survival by Bernd Heinrich ISBN: 0-06-019744-7 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating Animal Adaption
Comment: When you ask "what do animals do in winter?" the general answer is "they hibernate." But that is such an inadequate answer as Heinrich shows. The author takes us along into the winter woods of New England as he (and us the reader) discover the survival strategies employed by many inhabitants of the forest. From putting on layers of fat and slowing body functions, to burying in mud or snow, to literally freezing solid and then thawing in the spring, animals have found a much wider range of tactics to survive than we would think.

The writing is very accessible, as if Heinrich is giving us small talks in an informal atmosphere. Full of first person experiences and observations, but solidly grounded in science, he leads us into the winter woods to meet these animals and see them in their everyday winter lives. The observations unfold in a series of discoveries which brings the reader along on the trip and helps make the science understandable. I guarantee that you will learn things you had not known before and probably will be surprised at the ingenuity of animal survival. You will not look at the winter woods in the same way again. An excellent journey of discovery.

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent!!
Comment: Really great information written in a conversational/relaxed style which makes the information very accessible. (In many sections it feels like you're there with the author as he describes what he saw and conclusions drawn. Wonderful drawings throughout. There are all sorts of topics covered. The chapters are as follows:
- Fire and Ice
- Snow and Subnivian Space
- A late winter walk
- Tracking a weasel
- Nests and Dens
- Flying squirrels in a huddle
- Hibernating squirrels
- The Kinglet's feathers
- The Kinglet's winter fuel
- Hibernating birds
- torpid turtles under ice
- iced-in rodents
- frozen frogs on ice
- Insects: from the diversity to the limits
- Mice in winter
- Supercool(ed) houseguests
- Bats and butterflies
- Aggregating for winter- winter flocks
- berries preserved
- bears in winter
- storing food
- bees' winter gamble
- winter buds
- the kinglet's key?

As winter is almost upon us here, I will be looking back to this book as a neat reference as I wonder about the Great Mystery that keeps life beating on through the cold. Definitely recommend this book.

Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating Tour of the Animals of Winter
Comment: Anyone who has walked in Thoreau's footprints and who can appreciate clear scientific thought will enjoy this detailed explanation of the fauna of the woods during winter. Heinrich has given us a wonderful tour of animals in wintertime, covering their habitats, physiology and evolutionary adaptations.

A word of caution - this is not a book for people seeking warm fuzzy feelings about cute furry little creatures. It is a book about reality in its full splendor.

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