# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- identify the four main strategies shown by organisms for coping with winter
- appreciate and give examples of the levels and types of explanation used for understanding these strategies
- describe ways in which the strategies can be subjected to experimental manipulation
- provide examples of how plants, birds and mammals can remain active through winter
- give examples of organisms that survive the winter as juveniles.

OpenLearn - Surviving the winter
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