hibernation
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Hibernation is a survival strategy used by many animals, characterised by a state of deep dormancy and profound reductions in metabolic activity, body temperature, heart rate and respiration.
From Science Daily • Feb. 20, 2024
Hibernation enables animals to survive cold conditions, and estivation allows animals to survive the hostile conditions of a hot, dry climate.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Hibernation in a squirrel might look like hibernation in a lemur or a groundhog, or a bear.
From Slate • Sep. 5, 2014
Hibernation and woolly jumpers would not be enough to ride out 100,000 years of winter.
From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2012
Hibernation would be too much sleeping, even by Duane’s standards.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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