hibernation

Examples of hibernating

hibernating

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

He wanted to study this problem by comparing the brains of hibernating animals, during sleep and awake periods.
Transmission to definitive hosts only occurs at times when the ants are not hibernating.
In hibernating animals, for instance, metabolism is kept to a minimum : respiration and excretion occur at a very low rate.
The adaptive value of the hibernating phenotype is realized by eliminating the need to maintain a constant, high body temperature by entering torpor.
These pre-reproductive weevils feed for a period before hibernating in the ground.
Such changes play a part in the survival of plants and hibernating animals and bacteria during the winter.
In the other broods either all the larvae developed actively or 1 to 3 larvae remained hibernating.
The global rates of protein synthesis have been determined to be profoundly reduced in hibernating animals.
Only 14 sandflies hatched and 94 larvae remained hibernating.
The hibernating larvae do not feed and their intestine is usually quite empty.
The percentage of hibernating larvae was especially high in pot no. 218 (21 larvae out of 52).
Nevertheless, the survival of the metacercariae in hibernating ants plays an important role in the epidemiology of dicrocoeliosis.
Because the hibernating mammal arouses periodically from torpor throughout the hibernation season, the ability to function at euthermic temperatures must be maintained continuously.
Parasite transmission to the definitive hosts only occurs at the times when the ants are not hibernating.
As described above the number of hibernating larvae increases gradually in the later summer generations, although the climatic conditions at this time of the year provide no cause for hibernation.
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