Seasonal Activities

Where Do the Animals Go When It Gets Cold? Every November, without fail, one of my students would press a nose to the classroom window and ask, "Where do the squirrels go when it gets cold?" Before I taught, I spent years as a zookeeper and a state park naturalist, and that question never got old. It's still one of my favorite doorways into real science. Animals don't have coats to zip up or thermostats to turn on. They still make it through winter, and how they do it is one