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How does hibernation protect the bears?

Anonymous

∙ 10y ago

Updated: 11/15/2022

During the winter, food is too scarce for brown bears and black bears to survive. Hibernation is a state of extreme sleep where metabolism slows down. This reduces energy use and allows the animal to survive winter on its fat reserves alone.

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∙ 10y ago

What else can I help you with?

Do bears mate during hibernation?

What helps bears survive the winter?

it is hibernation

When do most bear attacks occur?

For black bears and grizzly bears, from spring to fall, with heightened periods when bears come out of hibernation and when they're fattening up for hibernation. For polar bears, it can be any time of the year.

What is a sentence using the word hibernation?

In the winter bears go through hibernation. The bear was hungry and ill-tempered after it's long hibernation.

Where do bears store food during hibernation?

They store food as fat. This occurs just before hibernation.

Do bears wake up to go to restroom during hibernation?

No, the whole metabolism shuts down to almost nothing.

Where do grizzly bears have their kids?

in winter during hibernation in their dens?

What kind of animals are hibernation?

both groundhogs and bears hibernate.

When do black bears wake up from hibernation in the poconos?

feb. march.

How many Bears don't wake up from hibernation?

The dead ones! :)

What is an adaptation that bears have that help them live through cold winters?

hibernation

Why do bears put leaves up the bum before hibernation?

They don't.