The Importance of Sleep for Hibernation

A lot of species that hibernate have to bring their metabolism back up to sleep periodically throughout the hibernation. So they still need sleep even during this incredibly low activity time. They have to actually turn back on a little bit. Reptiles often will do that. And then it's often called brumation, but it's the same sort of thing. It is what most sleep cycles we tend to think of follow is the circadian rhythm.

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