Months not eating or moving don’t result in muscle wasting and loss of function for animals that hibernate. New research found gut microbes help their hosts hold onto and use nitrogen to build proteins.
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Once thought to occur only in birds and mammals in the Northern Hemisphere, due to the more pronounced winters, we now know torpor is widespread in small Australian mammals.
Breeding pairs spend a great deal of time roosting together and the male often gently strokes the female with his beak.
Researchers are puzzled by a fungus that is killing millions of bats.
Green iguanas are an invasive species that seem to be spreading and proliferating in Florida. Used to warmer temps, they switch into torpor mode when the mercury drops.
When you’re warm and cozy inside, it can be natural to wonder if the animals you see outside your window this winter are doing OK. Don’t worry – they’re doing better out there than you would.
The European Space Agency is exploring what we can learn from animals about long-term deep sleep.
A new study looking at a long-lived lemur species attributes it to their frequent hibernation-like state. But what lessons can humans learn from this?
It’s all about mating success.
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Lecturer in Biomedical Science, Lancaster University
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Emeritus Professor of Biology, Penn State
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Professor of Sleep Physiology, University of Oxford
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Professor, Southern Cross University
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Clinical Veterinarian and Deputy Director of the Warrior Aquatic, Translational, and Environmental Research (WATER) Lab, Wayne State University
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Associate Research Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz
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Professor, University of Florida
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow - School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England
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Professor Emeritus of Comparative Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Université de Montréal
