Hibernating bears, grown fat from summer feasting, do not eat, drink, urinate or defecate while they are hibernating.
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Hibernating with bae would not be a bad thing at all.
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A groundhog&aposs hibernating heartbeat is only five beats per minute.
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And it's not like they shift from hibernating to a nap.
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Now if you need me, I'll be hibernating for a full week.
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After hibernating through most of 2180 he came through strong in 22.
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Even ten years ago, hibernating was an appealing option for quick booting.
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Afterward, New Horizons will take a well-deserved nap, hibernating for 157 days.
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Bears can lose a third of their body weight while hibernating, LaValle said.
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In some cases, bears are not hibernating at all, staying awake all winter.
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They slow their activity drastically before hibernating in order to maintain peak mass.
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It survived brutal winters by hibernating with its wings turned to the sun.
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Nah, it just took a little too much Xanax and it's been hibernating.
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Because weekend mornings are no longer reserved for the sleep-till-noon, hibernating recluse.
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Hibernating species usually experience a period of deep sleep, waking up every few weeks.
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So I am craving fresh recipes, to jolt awake my hibernating urge to cook.
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Set in the future, Passengers follows a spaceship carrying hibernating passengers to a distant planet.
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Photo: NIHSquirrels and other hibernating animals have an almost magical ability to withstand frigid temperatures.
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Whether you like it or not, temperatures are dropping and hibernating is not an option.
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It takes 120 years to get to the planet, and passengers spend the journey hibernating.
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PSA: We're temporarily hibernating for the holidays but will be back on Monday, January 03.
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If you don't plan on hibernating this winter, you might want to check it out.
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Attacks are minimal December through April, when most bears are hibernating for the winter and spring.
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Officials hoped this meant that Cinder was hibernating, but it appears something more sinister had happened.
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President Trump rolled back a trio of regulations Monday, including protections for hibernating bears in Alaska.
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For the winter, the beetles are in a state of torpor — essentially hibernating — all season long.
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Meanwhile, the architect David Rockwell is first onstage, having elected to look at Broadway's hibernating theaters.
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A team at the University of Zürich, Switzerland, found evidence of sleep debt in hibernating animals.
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Or does normal mean hibernating at home for days on end and "nesting" in yesterday's yoga wear?
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So, when hibernating indoors isn't an option, we're trading our oversized sweatshirts for the stylish sweaters ahead.
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Since 2006, white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease, has decimated the hibernating bat population in the Northeast.
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Circumstances force the hibernating crew to awaken prematurely, despite still being years away from their intended destination.
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Our phones are useless to us if they can't receive messages, so using hibernating isn't an option.
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Too often, I've had white Rhônes that just seemed dull, as if they were cocooned or hibernating.
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Among hibernating squirrels, much of the stored nourishment is needed to survive the cold season without foraging.
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The pair must, of course, consider the lives of the 5,000 other people hibernating on the ship.
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He talks to his "hibernating" penis (or "Bird"), communing with it, berating it or willing it to life.
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He began hibernating in his apartment, ignoring texts from friends and family for several days at a time.
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I also learned that Russia has a long-standing history of slaughtering hibernating bears in their winter dens.
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The researchers then sought to determine if it was possible to suppress these debilitating process in non-hibernating cells.
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Twenty of the 32 species of bats in Texas do not regularly hibernate, and WNS only harms hibernating bats.
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Hibernating mammals, insects and even nematode worms all seem to turn off their cells in similar ways to frogs.
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They lurk, pallidly hibernating, inside fortune cookies and Christmas crackers; the groan is the pun's appropriate unit of appreciation.
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Scientists have offered myriad potential answers to Fermi's question, including that aliens are hibernating or deliberating hiding from us.
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Whether or not you're in a chilly climate, you've been all about hibernating at home and being domestic lately.
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And while some of us might grimace thinking of that lapsed gym membership, imagine what hibernating animals go through.
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"I feel like we were entrusted with this important piece of art and it was hibernating," Mr. Rubie said.
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Hibernating mammals are able to actively suppress their metabolism, meaning they can tell their body to use less energy.
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The delirium and aggro vibes of a city that's used to hibernating in coats – that's the feeling imbued within Trick.
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Fat cells of hibernating bears treated with a blood serum from "summer" bears become more insulin sensitive, the researchers found.
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Here's a little advice on how to motivate yourself to get moving when all you feel like doing is hibernating.
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And if you're planning on hibernating indoors this winter anyway, you can just hide if the whole thing doesn't work out.
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So from now until the ice melts, we'll be hibernating beneath fuzzy blankets and foraging our cupboards for expiration-less provisions.
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"Bears are hibernating now, but Tuva is crowded with wolves," said Semen Rubtsov, head of the search and rescue in Tuva.
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The white fungus thrives in cold, humid environments, where it infects skin of the muzzle, ears, and wings of hibernating bats.
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Muskoxen utilize the coastal plain year around, while in winter, polar bears descend upon the plain to give birth while hibernating.
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With temperatures dipping into the teens and negatives for much of the country this week, many Americans may find themselves hibernating inside.
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Hibernating animals — including ground squirrels, groundhogs, and bats — slow their breaths, reduce their heartbeats, and substantially wind down, or depress, their metabolisms.
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But Congress is acting to make it easier to dump mining waste in streams and kill hibernating bears in federal wildlife refuges.
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So woodchucks hibernating in a car "would just be burning through more fat trying to keep their bodies from freezing," she says.
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While you might've spent all winter hibernating and cooking stew, in the summer, you tend to just eat less and do more.
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It's not just Shakespeare that was hibernating, it was Zeffirelli as well, and it was Baz Luhrmann, and it was Leo DiCaprio.
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More from Tonic: To bridge the gap between hibernating sloth and runner in motion, I picture myself going to bed that night.
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You love attention, Libra, but you've been hibernating a lot this winter, and Venus and Neptune have you in a dreamy mood.
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They are not as strong as the Nationals, but they could challenge for a playoff spot by preying on their hibernating neighbors.
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It won't take long to discover if this is the straw that breaks through the silence and hibernating consciences of congressional Republicans.
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"It's a good time because friends who have been hibernating throughout winter are coming out and want to go out," she says.
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The elevator, an old cat hibernating on some upper floor, rattled to life when he called it and roared down to him.
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While much of the country was hibernating with hot cocoa, 0003 athletes were competing in a 2000-mile race in northern Minnesota.
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Well, maybe not everyone, but we all know one of those people who craves the rush of chilly adventures instead hibernating until spring.
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Whenever I try to put some of the hibernating toys into rotation, he ignores them for the sake of his favorite rubber ball.
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Once a brood breaches the soil in which it's been hibernating, the cicadas find a safe place to molt into their final form.
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Dr. Andrews noticed that hibernating squirrels use melatonin, a potent antioxidant, to protect the cells when blood flow increases after months of inactivity.
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But the marmot was hungry after a long winter of hibernating, so it eventually popped back out; the fox had been waiting patiently.
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Story at a glance Not everyone is a fan of winter, and some animals, like grizzly bears, skip it almost entirely by hibernating.
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They can burn for a long time, as the fire burrows down into the ground, where it can overwinter like a hibernating bear.
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Here, five ways she can update the aesthetic of the moment for colder days so that instead of hibernating come winter, she'll thrive.
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So you don't ... I want to talk to you more about that, but you're not hibernating every four years and then popping out.
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Since then the syndrome's cause, the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans, has spread across at least 31 states and five Canadian provinces, striking hibernating bats.
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According to Katmai National Park, hibernating bears breath just once a minute and have a heart rate of eight to 10 beats per minute.
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One of the main problems is that we still don't know all that much about what's going on internally while an animal is hibernating.
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I know my body is collecting water in its nether regions, the weight of the hibernating mammal, storing everything in drowsy, slow-moving preservation.
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"Hibernating bats are most likely to be affected," said Jonathan Reichard, assistant coordinator for the Fish and Wildlife Service's program on white-nose syndrome.
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So, the answer to our initial question is that we still don't know why animals fall asleep immediately after they wake up from hibernating.
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This leaves locals stuck in a guessing game, as they try to determine whether the iguanas on their frosted lawns are dead or just hibernating.
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Once they locate a receptive female, or two, they go back to their burrows and resume hibernating, planning to return in March for mating season.
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Will the ones hibernating in the Arctic permafrost release more of that vast store of frozen carbon as methane than carbon dioxide, spurring further warming?
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He told the network he was hopeful at the time that the young bear had been hibernating deep in a den somewhere for the winter.
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While other teams with low payrolls habitually tear down their rosters — hibernating for years while stockpiling prospects — the A's and the Rays never quite concede.
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The film is set entirely aboard the starship, which carries 5,000 hibernating passengers on a 120-year journey to a distant utopian planet called Homestead 2.
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At the time, they were gathering samples from bats — both alive and dead — that had been hibernating in a mine they'd sealed off for the winter.
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"I am very competitive and it would be amazing to win, but showing up here today is actually a victory because I've been hibernating," says Gibson.
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Whether they're hibernating, migrating thousands of miles to reproduce, or living in a bone-dry desert, many animals go weeks or even months without any food.
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Figuring out exactly what these two brain regions are doing in hibernating animals and how they're regulated could lead to methods of inducing it in humans.
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Additionally and somewhat ironically, climate change, which Pence once called a "liberal environmentalist agenda," is now rousing hibernating bears uncharacteristically early, according to The Siberian Times.
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The ones who survive with a measure of happiness are those who can live profoundly off their intellectual resources, as hibernating animals live off their fat.
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One was held this past weekend, at a time when bears are particularly active in foraging for food before their hibernating season begins later this year.
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Dr. Johnson's study, in the Journal of Applied Ecology, found that both higher temperatures and increased food supplies decreased the amount of time bears spent hibernating.
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The tale that left the deepest impression on me had to do with one of the hibernating colonists being accidentally revived, halfway to the Coyote system.
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The hibernating universe theory has its own issue, explained Carroll: It also suggests our universe had a low-entropy beginning, without offering any explanation as to why.
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Matt Andrews, a molecular biologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, studied the biology of hibernating ground squirrels and later helped develop a treatment for hemorrhagic shock.
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Bears are known for hibernating, but its the bulls in the oil market that might as well settle in for a long nap, according to Wells Fargo.
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If spring is for refreshing and summer is for updating, then fall is for hibernating and preparing our bedrooms, living rooms, and kitchens for shorter daylight hours.
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Fitting the definition of obese at times, hibernating brown bears pack on the pounds during the summer months so they can stay warm during the winter months.
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It is a generally assumed principle, much like the sun rising in the east or bears hibernating in the winter, that Canadians are an unfailingly polite people.
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Importantly, however, data isn't in real time, and rangers can turn trackers on and off at will, mainly so enterprising guests don't endanger themselves or any hibernating bears.
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Walker tells Refinery29 she was "hibernating on Monday and searching Yelp for the best challah French toast" when she decided to create a Yelp account on a whim.
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While OPEC may have been hibernating, the decision by Saudi Arabia, OPEC's leading member, to let oil prices crash was always a pragmatic one, not an ideological one.
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It has killed more than six million hibernating bats in 28 states and five Canadian provinces since it was first documented nearly a decade ago in New York.
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Since then, the mission has been returning important scientific data from this hitherto unexplored region of the moon, operating during the lunar day, hibernating during the lunar night.
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But for a variety of reasons—including that it's winter and bats are hibernating—many scientists suspect that some other animal moved the virus from bats to humans.
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This North American rodent features 13 alternating brown and white lines that extend along the length of its body (hence its name), but more importantly, it's a hibernating mammal.
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After Philae went dark, they focused their efforts on trying to regain contact and at least recoup some of the data Philae hadn't been able to transmit before hibernating.
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The bat was hibernating in the Bowden Cave in West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest, remote enough that if the hikers had Pokémon Go is unquestionably this season's hit game.
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But the sci fi term cryosleep (also commonly called "stasis" or "suspended animation") does closely refer, more or less, to "torpor," a state of unconsciousness achieved by hibernating animals.
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" The greenery starting to crop up and the stirring of hibernating animals, she explains, is a sign of greater things to come; it's a time of "enormous potential energy.
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And in "Early Riser," his brilliantly funny and slightly deranged new novel, Jasper Fforde explores the strange things that happen when humans begin hibernating during ice age-like winters.
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"With the arrival of spring or late winter warmth, revived hibernating animals go out into the world seeking food and, in some cases, mates," the National Wildlife Federation notes.
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She said no bats were sold or found at the seafood market and the outbreak was first reported in late December when most bat species in Wuhan are hibernating.
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A Hibernating UniverseMaybe before the Big Bang, the universe was a small, slowly evolving fixed space, as theorized by physicists like Kurt Hinterbichler, Austin Joyce and Justin Khoury and others.
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But animal rights activists say this will open the door to hunters snatching hibernating bears and wolves out of their dens, or even killing them in front of their cubs.
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The key difference between therapeutic hypothermia and torpor is the fact that a hibernating body cools itself naturally, while a hypothermic one tries very hard to warm itself back up.
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This barbaric resolution allows for these emblematic species to be inhumanely dispatched by aircraft snipers, and allows for the killing of hibernating bears and cubs or denning wolves and pups.
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One of the most curious mysteries about hibernation that I and my fellow hibernation researchers are trying to answer is why hibernating animals are so tired when they wake up.
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According to Fran, the manager of Cuan Wildlife Rescue in Much Wenlock, England, the bald hedgehog was found wandering in a woman's garden during the day when he should've been hibernating.
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Speaking of hibernating, it doesn't hurt to do a periodic check of all the apps you have and either get rid of or restrict any that are unnecessarily using battery power.
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A group of researchers at Washington State University published a study in Communications Biology in September that sought to better understand what goes on in the cells of hibernating grizzly bears.
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The natural fires tend to come in the spring and fall when many animals are hibernating and many plants are dormant, so they are protected from the blaze, Dr. Wagenius said.
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"I always call this the magical time of year," Hannah Carey, who researches the physiology of hibernating animals at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's School of Veterinary Medicine, said in an interview.
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The thought of hibernating for the rest of through March, waking up only to eat big plates of cheeto mac and cheese or penne alla vodka, sounds pretty appealing right about now.
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In February 2014, a report commissioned by NASA and conducted by the Atlanta-based SpaceWorks Enterprises consultants found "no show stoppers" that would prevent humans from hibernating on a long space mission.
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It's simply too early to apply basic research to humans, according to Kelly Drew, who says it's work on non-hibernating animals that will eventually provide the breakthroughs necessary for human trials.
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"While V11213 Cen does look like it was hibernating, the observations that revealed by this are still very brief — just a snapshot — compared with the evolutionary timescale of the system," Drake said.
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He works as much as possible in the warm, late-light summers, to save enough money to last him through the hibernating days of winter, a strategy he learned from Mr. Mendes.
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By the time they emerge, hibernating animals are often sleep-deprived: Most expend huge bursts of energy to arouse themselves occasionally in the winter so their body temperatures don't dip too low.
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"The bond market's current 'beast' is not so much a killer but a hibernating bear awakening from an extended secular bullish trend of lower inflation and excessive central bank accommodation," Gross said.
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As soon as the weather is mild enough to exercise outside, people jump at the opportunity to get out of the gym and ditch the winter jacket they've been hibernating in all winter.
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Plus, it comes in a shade of bright pink, so people will remember to step over you while you're hibernating on the floor, in your office, or in the middle of the street.
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Usually transmitted from bat to bat, fungal spores can also be transported long distances on the clothing and equipment of people who visit the caves and abandoned mines that hibernating bats depend on.
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We can see it now: You, hibernating by the fire (or hogging the space heater) binging Netflix on your new smart TV and online shopping like nobody's business on your new Dell Inspiron laptop.
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Gatherers enter the forest to collect the bugs from their underground nests—a task that's a bit easier at this time of year since the bees are hibernating— and drown them alive in shochu.
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Fitzgerald added that although the cage needed work, Ben — who has been hibernating in his cave since November — would never hurt anyone or ever try to escape since he was happy where he was.
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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Artists usually like to attend the opening of their exhibitions but the painter of the works that went on display at a gallery in Helsinki on Tuesday preferred to carry on hibernating.
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By then, the consequences of a winter spent hibernating and indulging in comfort foods become all too stark, and one must face the sad fact that last summer's cargo shorts are a tad snug.
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After months spent hiding inside snow boots, hibernating under wool socks, and never seeing the literal light of day, it's safe to say that things are probably looking a little scary in the foot department.
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About an hour and a half went by, during which the 20 or so other passengers and I stood outside in a hibernating trance, eyes fixed on the waves rushing at us from the horizon.
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While it was possible to shift Rosetta into a hibernating phase, mission managers calculated that the odds were slim that Rosetta could revive when Comet 67P approached the sun again, about four years from now.
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Scientists have puzzled for decades over the evolutionary tweaks that have allowed bears and other hibernating animals to lie still through the winter, forgoing food and water, yet emerge with their health intact come spring.
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I don't like the winter because everything seems so gloomy, all the trees are hibernating, it gets dark at 4:30 PM, there are no birds and basically any wildlife which is a little sad.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Long hibernating price inflation is taking center stage in America's economy, in part because President Trumps' anti-migrant policies are fueling already rising wages, a top Wall Street asset strategist said on Monday.
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Drew and others hope to soon attempt to induce hibernation in pigs—an animal that doesn't naturally hibernate, is large, and doesn't have much "brown fat," which generates body heat and is found in hibernating animals.
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The bat was hibernating in the Bowden Cave in West Virginia's Monongahela National Forest, remote enough that if the hikers had kept their bat-licking escapade to themselves, no one might ever have discovered the crime.
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"Over the years we've had reports of bears hibernating under people's decks and in their garages and stuff, so we would have to wake them up in order to get them out," Dr. Wynn-Grant said.
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The recovery sparked signs of life for a handful of hibernating miners in Canada's metal-rich Labrador Trough, straddling the provinces of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador, including Champion, Alderon Iron Ore and Tata Steel Minerals Canada.
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The armyworm has now settled in China, however, and after hibernating in the southwest this winter it will be back to threaten next year's crop, Pan Wenbo, director of the planting administration at the ministry told reporters.
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It could very well be that we get a kind of hibernating situation the next couple of years maybe, even where the trade war kind of remains at its current level, will have a negative effect. Absolutely.
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Kate Bosworth for Shopbop If you planning on hibernating during the holiday season in your worn-out sweats from college, Kate Bosworth is offering her genius style advice for ways to look chic while staying comfy at home.
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After hibernating in our pop cultural subconscious for a decade and a half, "Smooth" has, seemingly randomly, turned into a mainstream gag both on and off the internet — most notably with two appearances at the just-concluded Olympics.
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MEXICO CITY — After years of being ravaged by severe weather and shrinking habitats, the monarch butterflies hibernating in the Mexican mountains rebounded last year, kindling cautious hope that one of the insect world's most captivating migrations may yet survive.
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For the study, the researchers compared the cells of non-hibernating animals, such as humans and rats, with cells from the 13-lined ground squirrel as they searched for the factors responsible for the animals' different responses to cold.
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" Luckily or not, neocons are now hibernating, and Trump's foreign policy platform says that "we do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example … for everyone to follow.
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Under the proposed rule, put forward by the National Park Service on Monday, hunters would also be allowed to use spotlights to find hibernating black bear cubs and their mothers, and could also use motor boats to shoot caribou.
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Its long-haul arm AirAsia X Bhd said in a separate statement it was temporarily hibernating most of its aircraft at its Kuala Lumpur hub from March 28 to May 31, citing border restrictions linked to the coronavirus spread.
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On a day in late March when the water temperature was 250 degrees, he pointed from his dock to the Peconic, where 200,000 2-year-old oysters and half a million 1-year-olds were hibernating in submerged cages.
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The U.S. bank said forex activity had "awoken" after hibernating for most of last year, but the rise in volumes - from 2017's low base - was down to global trade and capital flows in a market still lacking clear fundamental themes.
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Related: A Treatment for Alzheimer's Might Lie in the Brains of Hibernating Bears She was diminutive and publicly soft spoken but Nancy Reagan's strong will, high-tone tastes, and clout with her husband made her a controversial figure during his presidency.
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The absurdist comedy, now in its third season, is characterized by frequent spells inspired by sketch comedy; how sending a text can feel like a military-grade operation, men hibernating until women want to date them or comparing unwelcome boyfriends to illegal aliens.
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The voting for Fat Bear Week in Katmai National Park — where bears are blessed with a copious supply of sockeye salmon that allows them to fatten up tremendously before hibernating — has opened up, and there are two matches in play on Wednesday.
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As you can imagine, making a video takes a long time, I always feel like hibernating into a dream of deep feelings, thoughts, battles won and lost, and not being available for the rest of the world until the video is finished.
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Whether you're hibernating underneath your bedsheets, walking alone in the rain, or directing your head in the direction of your keyboard and your desk, it's at the least a release that will flood some much needed tempo toward your veins and into the bloodstream.
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After searching for hiding places where his country's monarchs might be hibernating, and not finding any, he got the brilliant idea of tagging 300,000 butterflies with a number and a request (obviously in minuscule writing) to let him know where the animal had been found.
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He spent time and considerable expense ("He's not cheap," said Joey Laurenti, his amused boss) to outfit his new offices: a furry couch like a hibernating Muppet, faux Mies van der Rohe chairs reupholstered to his taste, floor-to-ceiling bookcases stocked with his own reference library.
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Arts and Letters In Ottessa Moshfegh's new novel, "My Year of Rest and Relaxation" (Penguin Press), a beautiful 24-year-old gallery assistant wants nothing more than to sleep — not for a rejuvenating eight hours, but "full-time," like a hibernating bear or an aspiring narcoleptic.
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Beyond the lengthy list of loose threads of Mueller's probe, it's worth remembering too that the special counsel is hardly the only intrepid investigator that President Trump and his associated businesses face in 2019—even before the House of Representatives restarts the long hibernating oversight process on Capitol Hill.
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Whitebark pines are majestic trees with a whitish, often wind-curled trunk that grow up high in the Rocky and Sierra Mountains, in the Western US. They're icons of Yellowstone National Park, where they provide high-calorie seeds for many animals, including grizzly bears that eat the seeds before hibernating.
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First appearing in a diary that was published in the late 1800s, the legend of the hibernating old people recounts the tale of a poor family outside of Montpelier that couldn't afford to feed and clothe the oldest members of their family, so they froze the people and buried them.
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"It sounds a little bit distorted or perverse, whatever the appropriate word is, but it just raises awareness that there are Olympic Games going on in South America and you'd have to be hibernating under a rock not to understand that," Winter said, speaking from Rio on a conference call with reporters.
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Each spread opens out from the center with flaps that lift either up or down to form two diamonds, and Mroziewicz uses the book's unusual shape to position the creatures in interesting ways and add surprise: A crocodile's jaw opens on either side, a monkey spreads his arms over his head, a hibernating bear reclines.
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Related: A Treatment for Alzheimer's Might Lie in the Brains of Hibernating Bears Nancy Reagan, the former actress who was fiercely protective of husband Ronald Reagan through a Hollywood career, eight years in the White House, an assassination attempt, and her husband's Alzheimer's disease, died on Sunday at age 94, the Reagan library said.
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If a scientist disturbed a hibernator of this "recovery sleep" for a few hours after it wakes up, then it stands to reason that after that the animal would make up for this time when it actually does fall asleep (it would sleep for the same total length of time as hibernating animals that weren't deprived of sleep immediately after they woke up).
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He would smoke a bushel of pot, watch his knee bend the wrong way during a stupid tag-football game, be inexplicably moved to tears in a foreign city by a painting of a woman and her baby, touch a hibernating brown bear and an endangered pangolin, spend a week waiting for a test result, pray silently for his wife's life as a new life came out of her body—so many moments when life felt big, precious.
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