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Beaker30
at Sat Feb 14 15:39:29 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Beaker30 ]
"Brumation was a term used for escaping hot and dry. As in doing down to avoid inhospitable heat and dryness."
brumation - a reduced state/torpor of metabolic activity of cold-blooded animals in response to reduced temperatures.
hibernation - metabolic levels reduced to conserve energy/fat reserves over extended periods of time, usually seasonal. More often related to warm-blooded animals. A brumating animal can come out of its tropor much more quickly than a hibernating animal can.
aestivation - reduced metabolic activity due to higher temps or dryer conditions. ----- God Bless Evolution.
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