“I can state for a fact that my neighbour will come out of hibernation to plant his annual crop of potatoes on Good Friday.”

“I've been in hibernation for a while, and let me tell you, deep sleep is refreshing.”

“Many thanks must go then to Thomas Edison for ruining the whole hibernation ideal with his accursed light-bulbs.”

“Hibernacle is a boffin's word to describe a place where an animal hibernates but it can also mean a winter retreat for humans.”

“If you come across a hibernaculum or nesting site, inform your local resource conservation official so the site can be recorded and monitored.”

“Soil temperatures were taken in the present study only when the turtle was in a form, hibernaculum, or den.”

“Set into a mountainside in the town of Dorset, Aeolus Cave used to be the largest bat hibernaculum in New England.”

“Three different portraits of bears — a sweet hibernator, an angst-ridden combatant and a mystical seeker — emerge in these books.”

“A winter hibernator, this ground squirrel may be seen throughout the park from the montane valleys to the alpine.”

“Jane's prizes included a year's free membership to Northumberland Wildlife Trust, as well as a hedgehog hibernator and a guide to garden birds.”

“Big brown bat has only been observed to over-winter in New Brunswick in urban settings, where they use buildings as hibernacula.”

“In many hibernacula — the disease seems to afflict bats only during the winter — the mortality rate has reached over ninety per cent.”

“In some hibernacula, populations plunged by as much as ninety-seven per cent.”