What Animals Hibernate In The Summer

Animals that hibernate store up body fat by eating a great deal of food during the end of summer and fall months of the year.

What animals hibernate in the summer. What kind of animals hibernate. Some animals including the California red-legged frog may estivate to conserve energy when their food and water supply is low. None of our wetland bird species hibernate and have instead developed adaptations to deal with the cold such as migration.

Both land-dwelling and aquatic animals undergo estivation. Warm-blooded animals whose body temperatures are self-regulated by their internal organs use external temperatures and food as their bio-fuel. Animals that estivate include north american desert tortoises crocodiles salamanders and lungfishes.

The lungfish enters estivation when their habitat gets too hot and dry. In the case of California red-legged frog estivation occurs when the food and water levels are down not necessarily during summer. Instead of resting through the winter with lower metabolism activity animals that estivate sleep through the warmer months.

If I wanted to make a semantic quibble then no there are no animals that hibernate in summer because from the Latin hibernation literally means the action of passing the winter. But there is an equivalent phenomenon called aestivation or estivation in American English whi. Animals that hibernate store up body fat by eating a great deal of food during the end of summer and fall months of the year.

While the northern ground squirrels spend the summer eating and preparing for winter hibernation ground squirrels living in the southwest desert may avoid the extreme summer heat by aestivating in their burrows. Reptiles and amphibians are cold blooded and so if they remained active would not be able to perform their bodily functions. We commonly picture bears bees and groundhogs hibernating during the winter but did you know that some creatures retreat from the world in the summer.

Next up on this list of animals that hibernate in the summer is the gila monster. Many animals hibernate in a den all winter but some animals hibernate in the summer. During summers sunny spells snails will dig themselves into the ground or hide away in leaf litter.