Wild Kratts
Wintertime Creature Powers
Clip: Season 3 | 1m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
Creatures like otters, snowshoe hares, and even porcupines are active during the winter.
Forest creatures like otters, showshoe hares, lynx, and even porcupines are active during the winter. Some birds, like blue jays and chickadees, don't travel south for the winter. They stick around, forage for food, and use their layered feathers to keep warm.
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Wild Kratts
Wintertime Creature Powers
Clip: Season 3 | 1m 40sVideo has Closed Captions
Forest creatures like otters, showshoe hares, lynx, and even porcupines are active during the winter. Some birds, like blue jays and chickadees, don't travel south for the winter. They stick around, forage for food, and use their layered feathers to keep warm.
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So, let’s take a closer look at how different animals make it through the winter.
CHRIS: How about otters?
MARTIN: I love the way the otter deals with the snowy world.
Sliding through the snow, every hill becomes a toboggan run.
They’re perfectly comfortable out here.
We think it’s cold, the otter is like, "What’s the big deal?
"I’ll dive into the water, swim around, come out, just dry off and keep going again!"
Now, what about the snowshoe hare?
Brown in the summer, becomes the color of snow in the winter.
Camouflage powers.
They can make it, and they’ve got lynx chasing them too!
CHRIS: Yeah!
The lynx have those paws, basically built-in snowshoes, so they don’t sink in the snow.
The lynx is the wildcat of the far north.
Porcupines are active during the winter.
Porcupines live all winter long on one type of food: bark, the inner-cambium layer.
One amazing creature that stays out here all winter long is the tiny, little chickadee.
Those feathers keep him warm, and he’s able to find food right in the forest.
MARTIN: And you’ve got the blue jay, the pileated woodpecker, a lot of really cool birds that don’t take off for warm, southern weather.
They tough it out through the northern winter.
So, the winter creature world is full of cool animals and incredible creature powers.
So get out there in the cold weather, and check them out.
Hey, let’s check out this hockey game.
Now, that’s a creature power, skating on the ice!
See you on the creature trail!
Keep on creature adventuring!
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