Scientists uncover surprising features of bear hibernation

Friday, February 18, 2011 - 12:10 in Biology & Nature

Black bears show surprisingly large and previously unobserved decreases in their metabolism during and after hibernation according to a paper by scientists at the Institute of Arctic Biology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and published in the 18 February issue of the journal Science...

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