Synopsis
This clip looks into how long-tailed tits have developed social behaviours to help them survive the cold winter weather.
- Programme: Winterwatch
- Episode: Biomass
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2016
- Biology | Ecology | Adaptations, interdependence and competition | Interdependence in a community
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