Winter World by Bernd Heinrich

Winter World by Bernd Heinrich

The subtitle of this book is The Ingenuity of Animal Survival.

We often discuss creating wildlife gardens on the show.

But if you're serious about creating a space for wildlife, it makes sense to understand how they survive winter.

Bernd Heinrich is the author of numerous bestselling and award-winning books and is a professor of biology at the University of Vermont. He divides his time between Vermont and the forests of western Maine.

From flying squirrels to grizzly bears and from torpid turtles to insects with antifreeze, the animal kingdom relies on some staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter. Unlike their human counterparts, who must alter the environment to accommodate physical limitations, animals are adaptable to an amazing range of conditions.

Examining everything from food sources in the extremely barren winter landscape to the chemical composition that allows certain creatures to survive,

Heinrich's Winter World awakens the largely undiscovered mysteries of how nature sustains itself through winter's harsh, cruel exigencies.

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