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Dormancy is a period in an organism's life cycle when growth, development, and (in animals) physical activity is temporarily stopped. This minimizes metabolic activity and therefore helps an organism...
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Estivation is a dormant state that occurs in the life of some animals during ... Some animals become dormant in the summer to protect themselves from heat ...
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Nuclear magnetic resonance is also being used to estimate the seasonal production of cryoprotectant and/or antifreeze biochemicals by dormant animals of seasonally cold regions.
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There are other animals that hibernate, or become dormant, daily. Many tiny warm-blooded animals have huge energy requirements. It is difficult for some of them to consume enough food to maintain themselves. To conserve energy, animals like hummingbirds and little brown bats become dormant for part of each day.
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NATURE presents no greater or more curious phenomenon than the habit of certain animals to conceal themselves and lie dormant, in a lethargic sleep, for weeks and months. It is known that in perfect hibernators As a matter of fact, although dormant animals absorb fat, it does not enter into their digestive organs.
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Hibernation involves a huge decrease in body temperature, whereas dormant animals tend to reduce their body temperature and metabolism only slightly. Animals that truly hibernate tend to be small mammals, weighing less than 1kg.
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dormant: Animals who lie dormant have the right idea: The only thing better than a nap is a nap which lasts all winter. But, at the same time, one doesn't want to be hebetudinous or torpid, does one? See: HIBERNATE, SLEEPY.
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lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid: The lecturer's sudden shout woke the dormant audience. ... in a state of rest or inactivity; inoperative; in abeyance: The project is dormant for the time being.
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Solitary animals, black bears roam large territories, ... When winter arrives, black bears spend the season dormant in their dens, feeding on body fat they have built up by eating ravenously all summer and fall. They make their dens in caves, burrows, brush piles, or other sheltered spots—sometimes even in tree holes high...
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