Sentences with word «hibernator»

While most may be dormant for short periods of cold weather, the white - tailed species is a true hibernator in winter.
But even among less social hibernators, there's variation in vulnerability.
Oxygen flow to the gray matter of hibernators can drop to as little as 2 percent of normal.
But unlike winter hibernators, these lemurs have to warm up periodically to at least 30oC, making the choice of tree hole important.
When spring comes, or droughts end, most hibernators emerge from their dens or nests without significant muscle atrophy or bone density loss.
, our milk kefir, has always been a happy hibernator, but he does take a bit longer to «wake up» than others.
Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner — Such a fun and beautifully illustrated way to learn all about hibernators.
For instance, the northern long - eared bat is a solitary hibernator.
Take the Arctic ground squirrel, an inhabitant of the Alaskan tundra and the world's most northerly hibernator.
«Maybe these lemurs, though they live in the tropics, look more like temperate hibernators than we thought,» Blanco said.
«If we could only turn on the process hibernators appear to use to protect their brains, we could help protect the brain during a stroke and ultimately help people recover,» said Joshua Bernstock, a graduate student in Dr. Hallenbeck's lab and the study's first author.
You've surely heard of bears hibernating, but they aren't thought of as real hibernators since they only slightly lower their body temperature which is near to their normal waking temperature and can be aroused very quickly.
At least, they're not true hibernators, like ground squirrels, which lower their metabolic rate by more than 90 percent in winter months.
Little brown bats, once the most common species throughout the eastern United States, are known to be gregarious and among those densely packed social hibernators.
That cold tolerance is linked to changes in a specific cold - sensing protein in the sensory nerve cells of the ground squirrels and another hibernator, the Syrian hamster, researchers report in the Dec. 19 Cell Reports.
I'll be the first to admit that with the exception of my February birthday, I'm a bit of a hibernator when it comes to going out in the winter here.
These animals are true hibernators.
Which of the animals are true hibernators?
Their body temperature and heartbeats do not change in the way true hibernators» bodies do.
A groundhog is an example of a true hibernator.
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