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Can animals make long-range weather forecasts?

It has been observed that ground squirrels are able to "predict" a particularly harsh winter. In some years gopher burrows are especially deep. Those animals that hibernate in winter react to the approach of winter in a similar way.

Author: Mendeleev V.A.

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