Individual vs. Nature
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The Long Winter was a semiautobiographical novel by Laura Ingalls Wilder. It spoke about her time on the Great Plains with a seven month winter. The family home was not warm enough and the family did not have enough food stored for the long winter.
Gila Monsters have fat stored in their tails and it acts as food during the Winter.
during the winter,snow has little or no moisture at all,leading to little water going underground.
Yes, a river can freeze during the winter months when the temperature drops low enough for the water to solidify into ice.
Yes, rivers can freeze during the winter months when temperatures drop low enough for the water to solidify into ice.
You would preserve it in coarse salt if it were meat and in ice if it were fruit or vegetables.
Yes, waterfalls can freeze during the winter months when temperatures drop low enough for the flowing water to solidify into ice.
Yes, rivers can freeze over during the winter months when temperatures drop low enough for the water to freeze.
cold weather and not enough supplies
When do they use them now, or when did they traditionally use them? You need a layer of snow from a single snowfall that is deep enough to make the entire snow house ("igloo"). So a tiny little one (like a pup tent, just big enough for 1 or 2 hunters) could be built at almost any time during the winter, but a family-sized one could only be built in mid-winter when there were longer continuous snowfalls.
Pandas move to lower, warmer elevations in the winter, rather then hibernating. Bamboo does not die during during the winter. They cannot get much energy from bamboo, so they do not have enough fat to hibernate.