Can't Find Illustrious Hits? - 10/23 Wamboozle Wednesday

It took me 25 minutes to do that one and it's bubble hell. If I remember correctly, he said it was 200 or 250 questions but it seemed like a hell of a lot more than that...lol

 

Bears don't technically hibernate. They don't lower their heart rate or anything, but they do shove pinecones in their butt to help winter dieting.

Our turking bear friend likes nature's butt plug

 

Cubssss. I have a few. 3 of them for now.

 

Bears go into a state of torpor and lower their metabolic rate -> hibernate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpor

 

Torpor is vastly different from the hibernation most animals do that partake in it, like I said.. bears don't lower their heart rate

 

When I'm doing the Catherine HITs it seems every time I press space it jumps to the bottom of my screen. So I have to make the browser page small so that it doesn't jump down. Anyone else have this problem?

 

i guess i'll make it then xD

 

They lower their metabolic rate, which is hibernation.

See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernation#Bears

 

Bears do what scientists call "winter lethargy," where they slowly lie dormant for a few months waking only a few times to eat. They do not defecate or urinate and their body temperature drops only about 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Their heart rate slows and their breathing is slowed as well. They do give birth during this period though and their bodies produce milk for the cub or cubs to drink. It is not technically hibernation but they do hibernate, kind-of

Animals that do hibernate, the ground squirrel for example, will drop their body temperatures as low as 32 degrees Fahrenheit or even lower, utilizing their body's high sugar content to keep from freezing solid. They enter dormancy fast and are hard to wake up. Bears enter slowly and can be aroused relatively easily.

Other animals, some frogs for example, actually freeze their body fluids during hibernation and lay completely frozen metabolically for several months during very cold winters.

But when they go out for "winter lethargy
' they eat a lot of food and stuff pinecones up the butt to reduce pooping so they can live through the hard cold winter. I was wrong about the heart rate, but what they do isn't standard hibernation.

 

Lol, u know u wanted to anyways!

 

If that's true then it's kind of ironic that bears are the poster-child for hibernation.

 

I'm just went and harvested some jalapenos off the plant. Gonna smash'em with some tea and sugar and see if I can find a home remedy for 24 shifts.

My mouth is now... :mad2:

 

We are just cooler ;D

 

Here is a paper http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6998737

Northern bears hibernate even longer. It is hibernation - they don't eat drink poop or pee for the entire time.

 

What they do can be considered hibernation, but scientist don't typically like to paint it that color

 

Hibernation is an arbitrarily defined term made by humans. So sure, you could say they don't technically hibernate, according to some specific definition. Is it a consensus? Nope. Poll the typical American and they'll say bears hibernate. Are they wrong? Maybe technically. In practical terms? Does it really matter?

 

Man I got tears running out my eyes from two of them things.:::angel:

 

I'm not even sure anyone is fighting, just throwing out bear facts. We used to work with them at zoo here in Atlanta, amazing creatures.

 

Here's a website literally called bear.com, they gotta know their bears for sure!
http://www.bear.org/website/bear-pages/black-bear/hibernation.html

And they say black bears hibernate due to hibernation being a slowdown of metabolic processes rather than just temperature.

 

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