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 ...

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

But rather than killing them, the process known as torpor allows the tiny hummingbirds to conserve enough energy to survive between meals. New research is providing insight into when torpor ...

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This wee thing is hibernating in a state of self-preservation called "torpor." This involves reducing a body temperature to almost a freezing level. Then, too, bats can reduce their heart rate − ...

"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 ...