hibernation

How To Use hibernation In A Sentence

• While hibernation during the winter is found in a few arctic mammals such as the Arctic ground squirrel (Spermophilus parryii), most homeothermic animals are active throughout the year. General characteristics of arctic species and their adaptations in the context of changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels
• 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.
• You also know summer is here when the food markets finally open after a winter of hibernation.
• Bears wake up in the spring after a winter of hibernation.
• About the time of hibernation a few tunnies or other hibernating fishes are caught while swimming about, in particularly warm localities and in exceptionally fine weather, or on nights of full moon; for the fishes are induced (by the warmth or the light) to emerge for a while from their lair in quest of food. The History of Animals
• As frogs, toads, salamanders, and snakes emerge from hibernation, encourage them to stay around your garden and help control pests.
• 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.
• They will be preparing 40 to 50 of the 250 tortoises and terrapins that share their home near Tewkesbury for hibernation.
• While the bruins do indeed lose bone mass during their hibernation, the researchers discovered that bone production remains constant and may even accelerate as the bears wake up and become active again.
• The coarctate or pseudopupal stages are those in which hibernation or diapause occurs most frequently.