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Why do groundhogs hibernate?

Updated: 10/8/2023
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12y ago

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Hibernation is a method employed by a number of animals to limit energy requirements during the time of year where critical resources are limited or completely unavailable. Groundhogs as well as many other species of ground squirrels hibernate in the winter when food is scarce.

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12y ago

groundhogs are called groundhogs because they are a hog and they go in the ground that's why they are called groundhogs.

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13y ago

yes groundhogs live under the ground that is the meaning of the name that is a dumb to ask.

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12y ago

to get more food and plus it's easyer to cath it's pray.

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11y ago

to tell weather it will be a long or short spring

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Grounghogs sleep in logs

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11y ago

yes they do..

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14y ago

burrows

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