Winter is cold in some places.Many plants do not grow during winter.Some plants die.Snow and ice may cover the ground.It can be hard for animals to find food during winter.Animals live this time in many ways.
Birds and butterflies can fly.Many of them do not wait for the winter.They leave.They go to a placeons swith nice weather.Then they come home in the spring.We call this migration.Migrating is a good way to avoid the cold.
Another good way to avoid the cold is to sleep through it.Many animals hide during the winter.Their bodies slow down.They save their energy They do not eat.They live out of fat.They hibernate.Snakes,frogs,and bears also hibernate.
Some animals store food in their homes.They do not sleep al winter, but they do much less.They live on what they saved in the summer and fall.This is what squirrels,beaver,and raccoons do.
Skunks do this,too.
Other animals deal with it.They do not leave or hide.They must survive.Some animals grow thicker coats in the winter but others change their color.For example;the arctic fox is brown in the summer,but his coat turns white in the winter.