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2. Great Migrations - Wikipedia

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   Great Migrations is a seven-episode nature documentary television miniseries that airs on the National Geographic Channel, featuring the great migrations of animals around the globe. The seven-part show is the largest programming event in the ten-year history of the channel and is part of the largest cross-platform initiative since the founding ...

3. Hibernation - Wikipedia

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   Hibernation is a state of minimal activity and metabolic depression undergone by some animal species. Hibernation is a seasonal heterothermy characterized by low body-temperature, slow breathing and heart-rate, and low metabolic rate. It is most commonly used to pass through winter months – called overwintering.

4. Torpor - Wikipedia

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   This reduction in body temperature and metabolic rate allows the prolonged survival of animals capable of entering torpid states. In 2020, scientists reported evidence of the torpor in Lystrosaurus living ~250 Mya in Antarctica – the oldest evidence of a hibernation-like state in a vertebrate animal. [15] [16] [17]

5. Migration (ecology) - Wikipedia

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   Animal migration is the relatively long-distance movement of individual animals, usually on a seasonal basis. It is the most common form of migration in ecology. [ 5 ] It is found in all major animal groups, including birds , [ 6 ] mammals , [ 7 ] fish , [ 8 ] [ 9 ] reptiles , [ 10 ] amphibians, insects , [ 11 ] and crustaceans .

6. Bears are starting to emerge from hibernation [Video] - AOL

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7. Animal migration - Wikipedia

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   Animal migration is the relatively long-distance movement of individual animals, usually on a seasonal basis. It is the most common form of migration in ecology. It is found in all major animal groups, including birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, insects, and crustaceans. The cause of migration may be local climate, local availability ...

8. Overwintering - Wikipedia

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   Migration of cranes. Overwintering is the process by which some organisms pass through or wait out the winter season, or pass through that period of the year when "winter" conditions (cold or sub-zero temperatures, ice, snow, limited food supplies) make normal activity or even survival difficult or near impossible. In some cases "winter" is ...

9. Hibernaculum (zoology) - Wikipedia

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   A hibernaculum (plural form: hibernacula) (Latin, "tent for winter quarters") is a place in which an animal seeks refuge, such as a bear using a cave to overwinter.The word can be used to describe a variety of shelters used by many kinds of animals, including insects, toads, lizards, snakes, bats, rodents, and primates of various species.