Is a lemming cold blooded or warm blooded?

The long arctic winter is a critical time for lemmings because, unlike many species of temperate rodents, they do not hibernate. It is amazing that these small, warm-blooded animals remain active throughout the arctic winter without freezing to death.

1. What kind of animal is a lemming?
2. Is a lemming a mammal?
3. What is a group of lemmings called?
4. How do Lemming stay warm?
5. Can a lemming be a pet?
6. Why do lemmings throw themselves off cliffs?
7. What eats a polar bear?
8. Do Shrews have teeth?
9. What is a group of beavers called?
10. Why do lemmings explode?
11. At what age can a female lemming become pregnant?
12. Do lemmings explode?
13. Where do lemmings sleep?
14. Which animal is not cold blooded?
15. What animal can survive in extreme heat and cold?
16. Do animals feel the cold?

What kind of animal is a lemming?

lemming, any of 20 species of small rodents, some of which undertake large, swarming migrations. Lemmings are found only in the Northern Hemisphere.

Is a lemming a mammal?

Lemmings are small rodents, usually found in or near the Arctic. Together with the voles and muskrats, they make up the subfamily Arvicolinae (also known as Microtinae), which forms part of the largest mammal radiation by far, the superfamily Muroidea, which also includes the rats, mice, hamsters, and gerbils.

What is a group of lemmings called?

HORDESLICELEAPMOB. Most lemmings are solitary creatures, meeting only to mate and then go their separate ways. When they do gather in groups, it's actually referred to as a slice of lemmings.

How do Lemming stay warm?

Their underground tunnel habitat helps them stay warm and also eliminates the need for them to hibernate. It also protects them from any possible predator that would usually prey on them above the ground. Lemmings usually make up nests out of ox wool, grasses, and feathers as both a shelter and a way to stay warm.

Can a lemming be a pet?

Lemmings are easy to tame and intelligent and inquisitive and are rarely aggressive towards people, making them ideal pets.

Why do lemmings throw themselves off cliffs?

(The prosaic truth is that they migrate in herds.) ... But there is one myth that has held on tenaciously: Every few years, herds of lemmings commit mass suicide by jumping off seaside cliffs. Instinct, it is said, drives them to kill themselves whenever their population becomes unsustainably large.

What eats a polar bear?

Adult polar bears have no natural predators except other polar bears. Cubs less than one year old sometimes are prey to wolves and other carnivores. Newborn cubs may be cannibalized by malnourished mothers or adult male polar bears.

Do Shrews have teeth?

shrew, (family Soricidae), any of more than 350 species of insectivores having a mobile snout that is covered with long sensitive whiskers and overhangs the lower lip. Their large incisor teeth are used like forceps to grab prey; the upper pair is hooked, and the lower pair extends forward.

What is a group of beavers called?

Beaver. A colony of beavers. Bee. A swarm, grist or hive of bees.

Why do lemmings explode?

Lemmings have become the subject of a widely popular misconception that they are driven to commit mass suicide when they migrate by jumping off cliffs. It is not a deliberate mass suicide, in which animals voluntarily choose to die, but rather a result of their migratory behavior.

At what age can a female lemming become pregnant?

Norway lemmings start early. A female can get pregnant at just two weeks old.

Do lemmings explode?

Like many rodents, they are prodigious reproducers, but the Norway lemming and the brown lemming have particularly dramatic population booms. ...

Where do lemmings sleep?

In a typical year, these rodents live in tunnel systems beneath the snow in winter which protects them from predators. Their underground burrows have rest areas, bathrooms and nesting rooms. Lemmings make nests out of grasses, feathers and musk ox wool.

Which animal is not cold blooded?

When I was a kid, I was taught that the animal kingdom could be divided into two groups. Warm-blooded animals, such as mammals and birds, were able to maintain their body temperature regardless of the surroundings. Cold-blooded animals, such as reptiles, amphibians, insects, arachnids and fish, were not.

What animal can survive in extreme heat and cold?

Jerboa. Jerboa. This desert-dwelling rodent takes the easy route when it comes to surviving extreme heat: it sleeps in a cool burrow during the day and comes out at night, when it's cooler, to find food.

Do animals feel the cold?

Animal species have their own equivalent to what human beings experience as that unpleasant biting mixed with pins-and-needles sensation that urges us to warm up soon or suffer the consequences. In fact, the nervous system mechanisms for sensing a range of temperatures are pretty much the same among all vertebrates.