• Cyborganism
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    9 hours ago

    Don’t they usually fall asleep underwater with only their snout sticking out of the ice?

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      6 hours ago

      That does happen but I don’t believe they are intentionally doing that. I think they just slow down and keep their nose out the water to breathe and the water freezes around them or they break through the ice to breathe and the water refreezes.

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        3 hours ago

        Well yeah. They fall asleep like that as the temperatures drop. Then the ice forms around their snout.