Sentences with phrase «hibernation period»
The phrase "hibernation period" refers to a specific time when certain animals go into a deep sleep-like state for a prolonged period of time, usually during winter. During this period, their body functions slow down significantly to conserve energy. Full definition
Over the course of the winter hibernation period, which can last more than five months, the infection spreads throughout the colony and on individual bats.
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It awoke from its final hibernation period last month after a voyage of more than 3 billion miles, and will soon pass close to Pluto, inside the orbits of its five known moons.
NASA will wake New Horizons on Saturday, the last of 18 different hibernation periods, but the space agency will conduct a series of tests before the spacecraft begins exploring Pluto on Jan. 15, according to NASA's The PI's Perspective blog.
They don't even urinate or defecate the entire hibernation period.
It's been so darn cold out lately that I've been on what seemed like an endless hibernation period.
At the beginning of every new year, I enjoy a self imposed hibernation period.
As our traditional hibernation period comes to its end, it's time to spring clean and get the house ready for warmer seasons.
In North America this is a national holiday, the day when the groundhog is said to come out of his hole at the end of his hibernation period.
A computer model based on data from patients with HIV further demonstrated that this hibernation period was evolutionarily advantageous, and could help the virus to survive and spread.
I have not left Healing Cuisine, but I was taking a hibernation period.
What followed next was a hibernation period that was quite long for tech standards.