Bats are fascinating creatures that exhibit unique adaptations for survival, particularly through their hibernation and torpor mechanisms. Hibernation is a state of significantly reduced metabolic ...

To make it there, hummingbirds sometimes enter a short-term hibernation of sorts ... But rather than killing them, the process known as torpor allows the tiny hummingbirds to conserve enough ...

To make it there, hummingbirds sometimes enter a short-term hibernation of sorts ... But rather than killing them, the process known as torpor allows the tiny hummingbirds to conserve enough ...

5, 2012. The birds, which spend some of their time in British Columbia, were the focus of a new study looking into when they go into the hibernation-like state of torpor. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP ...

A Rufous hummingbird feeds in a backyard at an Oak Park, Ill. residence on Jan. 5, 2012. The birds, which spend some of their time in British Columbia, were the focus of a new study looking into when ...

5, 2012. The birds, which spend some of their time in British Columbia, were the focus of a new study looking into when they go into the hibernation-like state of torpor. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP ...

Last month the young bear, likely older than a cub but not yet fully mature, was seen foraging for food in the town of Niwot in Boulder County, Colorado instead of entering its usual state of torpor - ...

A bear has been refusing to go to sleep for winter hibernation for weeks in Colorado ... evading “its natural inclination to go into torpor during winter” as soon as it’s cold enough ...