| Make sure she's at optimal body weight before she hibernates. |
| Hibernacle is a boffin's word to describe a place where an animal hibernates but it can also mean a winter retreat for humans. |
| Its body uses the stored fat for energy while it hibernates. |
| A bat that hibernates spends the summer eating a lot of food to store energy for the winter. |
| For example, a tortoise is a herbivore and hibernates but a snake eats meat and needs to be kept warm all year. |
| It feeds on hemp-agrimony, hibernates when small, and completes its growth in May or early June. |
