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Erlijn van Genuchten
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Global warming can also affect hibernating animals
The changing temperatures due to human activities have far-reaching consequences. These consequences not only affect us, but also affect animals, such as mammals that hibernate during winter.
Hibernation is also called winter sleep, and is similar to sleep in that bodily processes are turned down to save energy. However, hibernation lasts a lot longer than sleep, and the processes to keep the body alive are at a lower level with hibernation than sleep.
For example, groundhogs start hibernating in late fall for about three months, and their heart rate goes from 80 beats per minute down to 5 per minute, their breaths per minute go down from 16 to 2 and their body temperature goes from 37°C (99°F) to 3°C (37°F).
The changing climatic circumstances can impact hibernating animals in many different ways, sometimes positive, sometimes negative, and sometimes it doesn't seem to make a difference.
In this article, I explain how hibernating animals can be affected by global warming:
4 Ways Global Warming Can Affect Hibernating Mammals
How higher temperatures make a difference for animals’ winter sleep
https://medium.com/the-environment/4-ways-global-warming-can-affect-hibernating-mammals-8be7a5ccdb35


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This is informative ... It's calls for urgent action towards curbing climate change
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very informative
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Rising temperatures lower many species survival rates due to changes that lead to less food, less successful reproduction, and interfering with the environment for native wildlife.
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Helpful information, hope we can all work together and have a safe planet
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Global warming affects us all
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@munene_mugambi Sure it does
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Very important information.
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Wonderful!! Please keep going 💚