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 ...

While only three UK species hide away for five months at a time, some scientists think humans could go through the same ...

14.5 x 11 cm. (5.7 x 4.3 in.) ...

Dear Reader, You know it’s winter in Manali when you start to dream of soup—potato and leek, tomato and basil, chicken sweet ...

the hazel dormouse and bats (specifically the greater horseshoe bat). Many species slow down and enter a state of torpor but don't truly hibernate. All will use late autumn as a time of plenty to ...

They are difficult to spot as they only come out at night spend a lot of their time hibernating. As part of Pembrokeshire Coast National Park’s Cysylltu Natur (Connecting Nature) 25x25 project ...

Three black bin liners containing dormouse monitoring tubes have been discovered dumped ... to provide hotel accommodation for dormice who will soon be looking to hibernate." A BDBC spokesperson said: ...

Unlike true hibernation, which is seen in warm-blooded animals, brumation allows reptiles to significantly slow their metabolic processes while remaining somewhat reactive to their surroundings.