Sentence examples for hibernation before from inspiring English sources

The mountain pygmy possum of Australia is being affected by warmer winters, emerging from hibernation before its prey, the bogong moth, and often dying of starvation.

If there is resistance even in commercially vital East Asia, 3D will have to go into hibernation again – before being re-rediscovered in 30 years' time – as the industry throws its energy instead into VR: virtual reality.

They must "get it while the getting is good": storing calories when fruit is ripe, gorging before hibernation, swallowing a kill before the competition shows up and so forth.

If, on the other hand, it is a thrifty adaptation, species evolved in highly seasonal environments, species that hibernate or migrate long distances and store substantial amounts of fat before hibernation or migration should show the highest tendency.

Germany made the Moomins God-fearing and introduced evening prayers before hibernation.

Levels of bone-regenerating cells, called osteoblasts, also fell significantly, from 2% before hibernation to just 0.15% during hibernation.

The worst damage will be done to grizzly bears, which feed heavily on pine nuts before hibernation.

Marmots (Marmota), ground squirrels, and jumping mice and other rodents of family Zapodidae consume large amounts of vegetation in summer and early fall before hibernation begins.

After a second dinner at Lipka's top floor restaurant - a delightful modern version of the first - I curl up in my wood-clad bedroom and fall as sound asleep as a bear that's gorged itself before hibernation.

We got up early in the mornings to drive past the steep, avalanche-prone slopes that are good places to see bears grazing in early summer (although they are most visible in September when they are gorging on berries before hibernation).

They lose almost a third of their body weight and have to rely on stores of food built up before hibernation.