Sentences with phrase «what hibernating animals»

Brown fat burns calories, and is what hibernating animals — and even human babies — use to keep warm.

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There is also an opportunity to teach your preschooler about science, as you point out what makes each season different and how these changes affect all living things — for example, in the fall trees lose their leaves, many animals begin to hibernate, the weather gets colder, the sun isn't out for as long.

By comparing the hibernation habits of eastern dwarf lemurs and their western counterparts, researchers hope to shed light on what sends hibernating animals into standby mode, and whether lemurs — our closest genetic relatives known to hibernate — do it differently from other hibernating animals.