Sentence examples for of a hibernating from inspiring English sources

The minimum metabolic rate of a hibernating bear is lowered to about 25% compared to non-hibernating resting state and body temperature usually declines to no lower than 30°C [46].

For instance, in a period of desperate starvation, John Tanner's Ojibwe mother was able to dream the whereabouts of a hibernating bear and thereby save her family.

Asked to explain the message behind this year's offering, a sad story of a hibernating bear forced from his well-earned slumber by a manically acquisitive rabbit, he gave a truly grisly explanation.

Take a look back at the past five Christmas adverts and the voices behind them: Lily Allen (The Bear and the Hare, 2013) Last year's festive advert became John Lewis' most popular ad campaign ever when Twitter went into meltdown over Lily Allen's soundtrack to the endearing story of a hibernating bear that had never seen Christmas.

If so, the retrieval of a hibernating lemur from the box, to conduct further studies, would be easy and convenient.

Senior author Fredrik Bäckhed, from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, said it was not a huge surprise to see gut flora change with the seasons - but this is the first time anyone has revealed a role for these different bugs in the energy metabolism of a hibernating animal.

I imagined hiding there, curled up in a ball--a hibernating bear, unaware of the winter outside.

Wrapping yourself in an insulating layer of mud like a hibernating turtle definitely makes sense.

His sprawled flesh suggests someone who has just given up and decided to live in his underpants for the rest of his life, a hibernating animal living off stored body fat.

"Think of your lawn like a hibernating bear," he suggests.

The Sixers have now reached a point where the most iconic image of their season is that of a fan hibernating in the front row.