Sentences with phrase «like hibernation»

Winter is like hibernation time... and nothing beats cocooning yourself away with a good book (in my opinion!).

Modern SSDs are larger and less expensive, so you shouldn't have to disable important system functions (like hibernation) to stay within these limits.

The common poorwill, Phalaenoptilus nuttallii, is a bird found throughout Western North America and is most notable for its winter time habits — it is the only bird species known to engage in anything like hibernation and will spend almost the entire winter in a state of torpor hidden away in rocky nests.

Some Bearded Dragons «Brumate» sort of like hibernation, for up to months at a time.

This behavior, discovered by a team led by Kathrin Dausmann, an animal physiologist at Philipps University in Marburg, Germany, seemed suspiciously like hibernation, although no tropical mammal — and certainly no primate — has ever been known to hibernate.

Not only do kids get to see the seasons change before their eyes, they learn about science concepts like hibernation and migration.

Not exact matches

Two years later, however, the economic picture is even grimmer — and the bears are out of hibernation, roaring like never before.

It's clear or at least very possible that while doing this the animals were in some special state (trance, hibernation or something like this) which they remained in for a time.

Much like a squirrel stores nuts or a bear fattens up for hibernation, WE JUST KNOW.

, our water kefir, tends to be a bit more finicky and doesn't like frequent hibernation.

I feel like a bear in the final stages of hibernation prep.

When he's sick he goes into hibernation and doesn't mind in the least if I would like to leave the kids with him while i run errands or something, he just locks the doors turns on the TV and sleeps through anything!

She, like several other concerned NPP members, want those handling Nana Akufo Addo to let him out from hibernation.

It's not clear where he teaches or whether he has the ursine equivalent of tenure and its associated hibernation sabbaticals, but one thing is for sure: Like many similar characters in popular media, he perpetuates the outdated, stodgy stereotypes of a professor.

During their resting period, ovules turn off their genes to enter an almost hibernation - like state.

If scientists can figure out how animals like bears, bats, and mice survive the low - oxygen effects of hibernation, D'Allesandro says, it could lay the groundwork for human journeys to not just the mountains — but maybe to Mars.

The dental cavities in Protarctos suggest that consumption of sugar - rich foods like berries, in preparation for winter hibernation, developed early in the evolution of bears as a survival strategy,» explains Rybczynski.

The likelihood of getting scooped during a 3 - month leave is low, but if you are doing a Ph.D. in a fast - moving field, leaving for 12 months is like going into hibernation for 20 years.

While the animals» brains experience dramatically reduced blood flow during hibernation, just like human patients after a certain type of stroke, the squirrels emerge from their extended naps suffering no ill effects.

The squirrel - like mammals can lose up to 40 percent of their body mass during hibernation, and longer summers are giving them more time to eat and store fat, helping them live through the winter and reproduce the following year.

Problems occur when the hypothalamic cells of your brain do not recognize leptin, causing your body to think it's in starvation mode like a bear storing up fat for winter hibernation.

I went Paleo very abruptly and have had the hibernation fatigue and hair loss, and also a slew of severe PMS - like symptoms like irritability and depression.

This keeps the friendly bacteria in the product in a hibernation - like state so that the product remains potent.

Among these, FGF21 increases insulin sensitivity and causes a corresponding decrease in basal insulin concentrations; FGF21 increases hepatic fatty acid oxidation, ketogenesis and gluconeogenesis; and, FGF21 sensitizes mice to torpor, a hibernation - like state of reduced body temperature and physical activity.

It's an exciting time of year; it feels like we're all coming out of hibernation and back into the light.

You make me store fat like I'm a bear preparing for hibernation and you just won't let it go.

And we'll see for instance on an adrenal cortisol rhythm, we'll see people's cortisol really high in the morning like, you know, either very, very high in the range or even above the range high and then we'll see them bottom out throughout the day and a lot of times that's a — a parasite pattern because the cortisol's been jacked up throughout the night and then it spills in to the morning and now that these guys are kinda, you know, in their chillaxing mode if you will, hibernation, then the cortisol would drop then later in the day.

I pulled out a few pieces from hibernation for the trip, like a white mesh skirt and ankle strap sandals, then topped it off with this new sleeveless striped sweater — an outfit that I can't quite pull off in New York yet, but will hopefully soon enough.

It's been so darn cold out lately that I've been on what seemed like an endless hibernation period.

Today we're well into the return of winter weather and it seems like a very, very long time to go before my beloved denim capri pants come out of hibernation again.

lol it seems like you're definitely ready for some long winter hibernation

I go into hibernation mode (i.e. do nothing but binge watch Netflix) in the winter, so it's nice to feel like a human being again.

It was like everyone came out of hibernation.

I feel like I can come out of hibernation.

January has normally been my month of hibernation, my detox month as a like to call it.

I'm skipping out on my usual Medical Mondays post this week, partly because I don't like double - posting, but also because I'm in boards study hibernation from now til the end of July!

The weather finally turned cool here this week, and I feel like I'm already in hibernation mode.

From things like shaving your legs after winter hibernation to simply smiling when you see someone who catches your interest, and minding your manners on a first date.

If you have one of these then it will last in your body for lifetime, because this virus commonly goes into latent phase which is like a stage of hibernation where it hides in your cells.

Caffeine freak critters, duplicitous raccoons, a highly talented cast and Bill Shatner in overacting overdrive — it's like coming out of hibernation and waking in an animator's playground.

Committed to its own weird world, Anchorman never winks at its audience: It moves with Simpsons - like swiftness, doling out gag after gag, at least a few of which involve jazz flute and the hibernation habits of bears.

You can tell your hammy is in hibernation if you notice it's staying in the same position for a long time, isn't breathing very much, and looks like it's dead.

Without a moment of hesitation, like a bear awakening from his hibernation, he squints, smiles and unfolds into a full - body stretch.

After surviving months of winter hibernation and harsh, starvation conditions in the spring, anything that looks, smells, and sounds like a fish attracts them.

The monstrous forces in both Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter and Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter are led by Mental, a god - like being stirred from hibernation by the human race's incessant curiosity with an ancient alien technology.

«He really needed friends,» says Armitage, adding that it was as if «he had gone into hibernation — like a mad scientist.»

City denizens are also advised to stay away from nesting hedgehogs during hibernation season and to be wary of garden items that could cause harm, like plant netting, garden tools and rodent poison during the rest of the year.

Hibernation, as the name implies, is like the deep version of sleep mode.

Google's Project Glass might be in hibernation right now, but virtual reality is starting to take off in earnest, with commercial products like the -LSB-...]

I like the life around me that becomes obvious: flowers blooming, trees budding, and neighbors that come out of hibernation.