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A state of inactivity and metabolic depression in animals during winter.
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A standby state which conserves power without losing the contents of memory.
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A state of minimum power consumption
Examples of hibernation in a Sentence
There was little hibernation in the town often called the Switzerland of America.
For safety during hibernation and moulting, book-scorpions spin a small spherical cocoon.
I just saw her come out of hibernation.
The hibernation of these rodents is only partial, and confined to seasons of intense cold.
In Europe and North America the continued existence of species is ensured by the hibernation of impregnated females, or else the winter is passed in the egg or occasionally in the larval state.
The community is broken up on the approach of winter, the males and workers perish, and the young queens after hibernation start fresh nests in the succeeding year.
Provided your tortoise is up to weight and no other abnormalities can be detected, then you may begin preparation for hibernation.
In both there are species which form no nest or burrow, others which construct a simple silk-lined tunnel in the soil, and others which close the aperture of the burrow with a hinged door; while both share the habit of lining the burrow with silk to prevent the infall of loose sand or mould; and the species which make an open burrow close the aperture with a sheet of silk in the winter during hibernation and open it again in the spring.
The transformations from the larval state are completed within the gall, out of which the imago, or perfect insect, tunnels its way, - usually in autumn, though sometimes, as has been observed of some individuals of Cynips Kollari, after hibernation.
We knew it was but a temporary hibernation.
This time, it wouldn't go back into hibernation.
The plankton, both animal and vegetable, attains its minimal values and many of the larger forms of animal life pass into a kind of condition of hibernation.
They are born blind, but in a marvellously short period are able to cater for themselves; and their hibernation begins later in the season than with the adults.
The survey depends on looking for eaten hazelnuts - an important food source which enable dormice to put on weight for winter hibernation.
If you put small log and rubble piles near a pond that will provide hibernation habitat for amphibians.
Nursery roosts tend to be in buildings, but they usually roost solitarily in caves during hibernation.
The backs and back row are looking really smoky this term and the forward are now beginning to come out of their summer hibernation.
Warmer weather will bring over wintering greenhouse spider mites out of hibernation.
The morning was spent clearing the tunnel of debris and building hibernation roosts for bats.
There is no segregation of the sexes during hibernation.
Set your computer to go into hibernation mode if it has been idle for a specified period.
When he arrives at the cave, the bear is already midway through hibernation and fast asleep.
Soon Hammie, the squirrel (Steve Carell), finds a mysterious hedge that wasn't there before hibernation.