Fecal transplants in pill form, and gut bacteria that nourish hibernating squirrels
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Hannah cary is a professor in the department of comparative bio sciences at the university of wisconsin madison. She and her colleagues published a paper this week on how gut microbes might actually help hibernating squirrels with their supplies of nitrogen. Kelly servic is a staff newswriter at science dot org. We talk about how ground squirrels can survive for months at a time in a state of hibernation, and how their gut microbes provide a little helping hand.
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