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 ...

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 − ...

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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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 ...

SEATTLE — Snug as two bugs in a rug, three year old bears Fern and Juniper are mostly slumbering the winter season away at ...

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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Hummingbirds are small, but remarkably tough. Some species make migrations of over 5,590 miles a year. Their journeys are largely fueled by nectar, which is sipped from wildflowers ...

The bear was spotted hanging around the town of Niwot much later into the winter than is normal for the species, evading “its natural inclination to go into torpor during winter” as soon as it ...

"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 ...