Hibernation is a survival strategy animals use when food is scarce, especially during winter. All animals need energy to stay alive, but when cold weather makes food hard to find, some animals slow ...

Hibernation is a survival strategy animals use when food is scarce, especially during winter. All animals need energy to stay ...

We often see documentaries or videos of alligators floating in the water with their eyes and nostrils out, sneakily waiting for prey. Sometimes, these alligators are sleeping or just relaxing and ...

Hibernation and torpor are two different states an animal can enter in which their heart rate, breathing and body temperature drops, according to Sara Evans Kirol, Bighorn National Forest public ...

Winter is finally here, and bears are getting ready to find a den to hibernate in over the next few months. In Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park, one bear was caught prepping for his long sleep by ...

In most cultures, the winter solstice marks the symbolic death and rebirth of the Sun as it began the reversal of longer ...

The days are shorter and colder now — winter is only three weeks away — prompting us to turn up thermostats and build fires in the fireplace to stay warm and cozy. Wild creatures, though, have no such ...

Visible in the entrance to their den are a mother black bear, who has been sedated, and her female cub. Scientists are watching to see how bears will tweak their hibernation habits as the climate ...

Every spring, as days in the north stretch longer and melting snow trickles into streams, drowsy animals ranging from grizzlies to ground squirrels start to rally from hibernation. It’s tempting to ...

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To understand this phenomenon more closely, let us take a look at seven things snakes do when they are undergoing brumation. These are strange but important elements of a snake’s behaviour. During ...