Bears resorb their bone material during hibernation, but they constantly form new bone material as well. |
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For many animals seasonality is common, as shown in winter hibernation, and olfaction plays an important role. |
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These frogs take longer to emerge from hibernation to answer the call of the spring mating season. |
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Only occasionally have greater mouse-eared bats been found in tree holes during hibernation. |
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The coarctate or pseudopupal stages are those in which hibernation or diapause occurs most frequently. |
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Without our basketball, hockey, and football, we are empty husks of men who might as well go into hibernation until late Fall. |
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Mice have been placed in a state of near suspended animation, raising the possibility that hibernation could one day be induced in humans. |
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Bears wake from their long hibernation, now, hirsute initiates with tales to tell to those with ears to listen. |
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This is the time to plan seasonal promotions that will bring customers out of hibernation. |
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After a period of hibernation, corporate mergers and acquisitions are back on the agenda. |
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Nearly 10 months after leaving office, he plans to emerge from self-imposed political hibernation this week. |
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Once your lawn starts to grow again, it's time to bring your mower out of hibernation. |
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Dated references inadvertently betray the film's prolonged hibernation in development limbo. |
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The triumph marked a successful emergence from a prolonged hibernation for the sport in Myanmar. |
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When the bear came out of hibernation, she found areas where she used to feed last year are currently under development. |
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Frogs in deep hibernation take longer to emerge to answer the call of the spring mating season. |
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This lizard avoids a winter hibernation phase by the use of sun basking behaviors. |
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Snow pack and other natural insulators can keep the frogs sufficiently warm during their winter hibernation. |
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The German-based team say their study is the only report of prolonged hibernation in a tropical mammal. |
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Bats typically accumulate body fat in autumn, which serves as the main energy source until emergence from hibernation in spring. |
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Many thanks must go then to Thomas Edison for ruining the whole hibernation ideal with his accursed light-bulbs. |
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When a mammal prepares for hibernation, its body temperature lowers to near-freezing temperature. |
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Both aestivation and hibernation are found among the members of the family. |
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As frogs, toads, salamanders, and snakes emerge from hibernation, encourage them to stay around your garden and help control pests. |
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The danger is of developing hibernation strategies which envisage a futurity whose solace is retrospective. |
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I can state for a fact that my neighbour will come out of hibernation to plant his annual crop of potatoes on Good Friday. |
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I've been in hibernation for a while, and let me tell you, deep sleep is refreshing. |
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Upon emergence from hibernation the lizards were caught by hand or by noosing. |
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Inflated remuneration packages once associated with sales roles in high-tech companies seem to have gone into hibernation. |
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Yearling snakes can use maternal scent cues to seek out their first hibernation den. |
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This conformational changing process is strengthened by the increase in the affinity of the enzyme and for its coenzymes during hibernation. |
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You also know summer is here when the food markets finally open after a winter of hibernation. |
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They are a spent force, only coming out of hibernation to latch on to the topical issue of the day. |
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They will be preparing 40 to 50 of the 250 tortoises and terrapins that share their home near Tewkesbury for hibernation. |
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If the sow has not eaten enough to sustain herself over the hibernation, the egg will not implant. |
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It's like setting Windows in hibernation mode so that it doesn't have to go through the entire boot-up process when it's called upon. |
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It's an early spring day in New York and the city is alive, buzzing with Manhattanites who have ventured out from hibernation to partake in the unseasonably warm weather. |
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With the use of uplifting essential oils their metabolisms could be fooled into leapfrogging hibernation, believing they had already arrived in the scent of spring. |
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The study also noted that bear attacks mostly occurred during August, when bears are gearing up for hibernation and seeking food. |
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He disagrees and says perhaps the economy is going through a short hibernation, which will end sooner than people think by the back end of next year. |
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When bumper crops abound, even bruins just emerging from hibernation will immediately seek out whitebark cone caches that survived the winter unscathed. |
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The bear, weak from hibernation, was focused on procuring an easier meal, such as scavenged bison carcasses and the tiny white blossoms that speck the forest edges. |
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Upon emergence from hibernation, the lizards were caught by hand. |
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It's critical to weigh your turtle or tortoise prior to hibernation. |
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Progressive rock went into enforced hibernation at the onset of punk. |
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They are obligate hibernators, emerging above ground from 7-8 months of hibernation in early to mid-April, with males appearing about 1-2 weeks before females. |
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Limited nitrogen consumption before hibernation constrains egg production, apparently by limiting prehibernatory development of ovarian follicles. |
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Share prices then start to rise again, until such time that the market becomes so overvalued that our supine friends emerge once again from their hibernation. |
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Secreted nightly by the pineal gland, the hormone alerts birds, lizards, and mammals to approaching mating seasons and helps them keep track of hibernation deadlines. |
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A duvet day here and there is becoming more acceptable in the workplace, but obviously it is not realistic to expect that we can all retreat into total hibernation! |
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She gazed at the absence of light coming through the string-like curtains on the exterior wall like an anxious dormouse who's been too long in hibernation. |
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Prosector Fatou Bensouda's statement of hibernation on 12 December 2014, aimed at the UNSC, was made without consideration to Bashir's victims. |
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It eats berries and nuts and other fruit with hazelnuts being the main food for fattening up before hibernation. |
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Early butterflies are also on the wing, including the bright green brimstone and small tortoiseshells fluttering out of hibernation to lay eggs. |
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Retreats of araneids in higher strata do not play a significant role for hibernation of arthropods other than spiders. |
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Her body temperature does not decrease during this period as it would for a typical mammal in hibernation. |
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They typically become sexually mature after the end of their first hibernation. |
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Starvation is the most common cause of death, usually occurring during hibernation. |
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The common toad emerges from hibernation in spring and there is a mass migration towards the breeding sites. |
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The oxygen uptake through the skin suffices to sustain the needs of the cold and motionless frogs during hibernation. |
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Unlike hibernation, in which mammals are actually asleep, brumating reptiles are awake but inactive. |
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Some bears emerging from hibernation seek out tigers in order to steal their kills. |
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Photoperiodic induction of diapause hibernation and voltinism in Piezodorus hybneri. |
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A COMET-chasing space probe that has been in hibernation for almost three years has woken up and sent its first signal back to Earth. |
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This belief persisted as late as 1878, when Elliott Coues listed the titles of no less than 182 papers dealing with the hibernation of swallows. |
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In mammals, hibernation is so widespread that researchers reason that the ancestor of all mammals must have been a hibernator. |
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Bats, like other mammalian hibernators, arouse periodically between torpor bouts during hibernation. |
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Feed butterflies before they go into hibernation by planting nectar-rich, autumn-flowering Michaelmas daisies and ice plants or Sedum Autumn Joy. |
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During the summer, they accumulate fat in their bodies to nourish them through the hibernation period. |
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One of the most notable characteristics of those dormice that live in temperate zones is hibernation. |
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Most temperate species additionally need a relatively warm hibernation shelter. |
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Temperate bat species may swarm at hibernation sites as fall apporaches. |
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In the den, she enters a dormant state similar to hibernation. |
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Events this year include commanding the spacecraft out of hibernation mode, a complete system health checkout, and an Earth flyby for a gravity assist to Comet Boethin. |
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They are particularly known for their long periods of hibernation. |
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They rely on their fat reserves during their long winter hibernation. |
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Q WHEN my tortoise came out of hibernation, I was told to give it catfood. |
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In the period preceding hibernation, larger mammals, such as bears, become polyphagic to increase fat stores, whereas smaller mammals prefer to collect and stash food. |
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Many mammals, in the absence of sufficient food requirements in an environment, suppress their metabolism and conserve energy in a process known as hibernation. |
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George Orwell in his essay Some Thoughts on the Common Toad described the emergence of the common toad from hibernation as one of the most moving signs of spring. |
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This may serve to introduce young to hibernation sites, signal reproduction in adults and allow adults with breed with individuals from other groups. |
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The physiological ecology of hibernation in vespertilionid bats. |
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It's all about colour and texture when it comes to feeling good and using chenille and wool with a dash of faux fur means you'll be all set for hibernation. |
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