Live Animal Programs: Coping with the Cold January 2, 2010

Saturdays and Sundays 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. As winter approaches, we start making preparations for the extremes of the season. Fix up the furnace. Winterize the car. Get out the overcoats, hats and mittens. You know the drill. Well, just as we have to prepare for the season, so does the living world around us.
The bitter cold and howling winds of winter present a major survival challenge to wildlife. Migration, hibernation and changing habitats and diets are some of the strategies animals use to survive. Explore with us the adaptations of Ohio’s wild animals that allow them to survive the sometimes brutal conditions of winter.