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Long Winter's Nap: Minnesota Zoo Bears in Torpor
1 month ago | By Minnesota Zoo
Over the winter, a few fuzzy faces will be absent at the Minnesota Zoo. That's because brown bears and American black bears will be sleeping behind the scenes as they experience the natural, seasonal state of torpor.
Torpor is a little different than hibernation. Bears don't experience as deep a state of sleepiness as small mammals and amphibians that hibernate. Animals that hibernate in the wild, like groundhogs and wood frogs, enter a deep and constant sleep to save energy and survive the winter.
Like their wild relatives, the brown bears at the Minnesota Zoo will spend the winter in a...
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