Sentences with phrase «mass during hibernation»

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.

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During stress or starvation, or even hibernation, animals lose lean mass faster than fat.
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