I love hibernating
Go to sleep when September ends??
It did surprise me when I first found out they had to periodically come out of hibernationā¦to have a nap.
Wait, WHAT?
Yeah, not sure if its all hibernating animals but there was something I watched recently where they were saying how hibernation was really tiring to their system and if they didnāt come out of it to have a proper sleep theyād die.
Found this about ground squirrels but it was definitely another animal I saw doing it. This says theyād die from hypothermia if they didnāt wake up to sleep but sure this is a different reason from what I heard Warming up for sleep? ā Ground squirrels sleep during arousals from hibernation - ScienceDirect
I reckon if I had a question about hibernation or, you know, British Wildlife or whatever and my Mum was unavailable and also thereās no such thing as Google in this scenario, you would be my first port of call
Omg amazing, thank you! Youāre a fountain of knowledge
Honestly, most of my knowledge comes from kids books Won the Xmas quiz at work with some shark knowledge i picked up from Great Sharky Shark.
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Iāve liked and agree with this but I seem to recall 10 years or so back we both agreed that sleeping and eating were a bit annoying and getting in the way of us actually doing important leisure stuff.
I mean we shouldnāt ignore your adoration of Chris Packham. Surely thatās caused you to watch a LOT more nature-related videos than the average person?
I assume this is just you being a fan of winter more than summer (which I can get behind) but I thought I would check in case Iām missing something.
Feeling like this thread is very mammal centric and maybe we need to check some of our biases?
Anyway my tortoise is in my fridge and sheāll be there till mid march when she goes back in the garden and he salad crisper gets rehomed.
Likes to wake up at 2.30am, enjoys a little cryochamber time
Wtf???
Itās Thursday. Itās code.
Yup. Its where she hibernates.
She used to be in the shed but basically climate change ruined that, if it gets above 10c then she wakes up and can die.
So sheās in the fridge
I hope itās Michelle
How do you know when to get her out?