New research is providing insight into when torpor happens in some varieties of hummingbirds common to B.C. and how much the ...

To buffer against these challenges, hummingbirds use a process called torpor, a sort of overnight hibernation. In new research published this week, Shayne R. Halter, a Ph.D. candidate at The ...

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Now, his group explores how the brains of animals initiate and regulate torpor and hibernation, and how the cells of hibernators withstand colder temperatures. During prolonged periods of food ...

For birds the size of hummingbirds to survive 15-degree weather is likely nothing short of amazing to many people, but in ...

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CPW hopes moving the bear from potential food sources should help him go into torpor, which is defined as a state of physical or mental inactivity. CPW said bears can wait to go into torpor ...

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"Hummingbirds have a special adaptation called torpor which is like a mini hibernation," Routledge said. "When it gets below a certain temperature, they go into torpor." Routledge said while in ...