hibernating

Stop ponds from freezing over and watch out for hibernating hedgehogs

The direction of movement included every sector of the compass, though significantly more were recorded hibernating to the east or southeast of their main nest box.

If you have a pond, aquatic frogs may be hibernating in the mud at the bottom so don't allow your pond to freeze over completely as this will cut off their oxygen supply.

Prior to hibernating, gradually cool your tortoise's environment and bathe it daily.

Unlike the tree-hibernators, the upland lemurs take periodic breaks from hibernating to sleep, Klopfer, the Lemur Center's Marina Blanco and colleagues report in the August Royal Society Open Science.

When we're not hibernating or looking for food, you can find us sitting or lying on rocks and enjoying the sun.

FAISALABAD -- Wildlife is facing severe threats of existence due to global warming which is increasing day by day in temperate and less hibernating period.

For example, you may start finding some butterflies hibernating in your house.

Hibernating bears can sleep for seven months straight without eating, drinking, or taking a bathroom break.

We hypothesized that because of the moderate winter temperatures, hibernating in trees could be an option for bats on Haida Gwaii.

GSH levels of almost all tissues were lower in the hibernating group compared with the aroused group.

Sarah Brooks, conservation management officer at Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, said: "A lot of mammals such as the dormouse and various reptiles and amphibians, including the great crested newt, will be hibernating over the winter.

In the first half of the mild winter, many animals were tricked into not hibernating.

Others have been hibernating and then coming out when they need to eat, but there aren't any of their natural food sources around - snails, slugs and worms.