These hibernating squirrels don’t feel the thirst: Researchers find the thirteen-lined ground squirrel doesn’t drink during hibernation, cycling between periods of torpor (inactivity and suppressed metabolism) and interbout arousal (higher core temperatures with some movement in the burrow)
These hibernating squirrels don’t feel the thirst: Researchers find the thirteen-lined ground squirrel doesn’t drink during hibernation, cycling between periods of torpor (inactivity and suppressed metabolism) and interbout arousal (higher core temperatures with some movement in the burrow)