hibernating

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Now researchers know why: Hibernating bears produce less of a protein that researchers just learned helps blood to clot, the team reports today in Science.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 12, 2023

Hibernating insects shiver awake, chorus frogs rehearse tunes and birds begin to dream of nests.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2018

Hibernating mammals, insects and even nematode worms all seem to turn off their cells in similar ways to frogs.

From Economist • Feb. 4, 2016

Animals Hibernating hedgehogs have overslept and are in danger of not waking up.

From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2013

Hibernating turtles and those experimentally chilled were usually comatose but were almost never completely incapacitated even at temperatures at or near zero degrees.

From Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz by Legler, John M.