The final champion of hibernation in our list is the gray garden dormouse, a small rodent that hibernates at the first signs ...

The dormouse is famously sleepy - hibernating for five months of the year Dormice have been released at a secret woodland location in a bid to boost Bedfordshire's only population of the mammals.

The nocturnal creature had been "plumping up for hibernation" on seed mix when it was spotted. The Hampshire Dormouse Group advised the Isle of Wight resident to ease it out and release it into a ...

The little ball of orange fur was curled up, not in a Hatter’s teapot, but under a stack of flowerpots deep in hibernation in a nest woven ...

Currently three species in the UK hibernate – but scientists think humans could one day enter the mix. All of the UK's bat species, hedgehogs and the dormouse retreat to cosy boltholes from ...

Lorenzo Shoubridge (Italy) uses a long exposure on a camera trap to catch a dormouse mid-air, trying to snatch a meal ... to eat well in the late summer in order to survive their winter hibernation.

Dormouse numbers have suffered a steep decline ... You may even be lucky enough to have bats hibernating in your garden. Find out more on our put up a bat box page.

Hibernation is an adaptation that allows an animal to escape cold weather and food shortages over winter. This is an example of dormancy associated with mammals. Hibernation can be either ...