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Show Animals In Winter Quarters. Many animals, like squirrels, dormice dor-mice and hamsters, lay up supplies of food in their winter quarters, on which they food during waking Intervals Inter-vals In the torpor, so that the fast li by no means so prolonged or so continuous. con-tinuous. They are, however, yet other animals, such as bats among mammals, mam-mals, frogs and toads among amphibians, amphib-ians, and the west African lung fish amoug fishes, which apparently neither put on tat nor lay up a store of food during their period of torpor; which In the case ot all ot them is unusually prolonged. |