Show animals in winter quarters t many animals like squirrels dor mice and hamsters lay up supplies of food in their winter quarters on which they teed during waking intervals in the torpor so that the fast Is by no means so prolonged or so con sinuous they are however yet other such as bats among mam mals frogs and coeds among lans and the west african lung fish among fishes which apparently neither put on tat nor lay up a store of food during their period of torpor which in the baso of all of them is unusually prolonged |