Do animals dream when they hibernate?

Moment of Um

American Public Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

When we dream, sleep becomes storytime. You might see an old friend, go on an adventure or show up to a test without having studied. So when animals hibernate for a long stretch in the winter, do they have epic, long dream stories too? We asked dream researcher Tore Nielsen to help us find the answer.

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0:00.0	Oh, hi.
0:02.0	Snuggle up.
0:03.0	Bedtime's about to be a dream.
0:05.0	It's Good night bedtime stories.
0:08.0	A perfect way to end the day good night.
0:12.0	Introducing Nickelodeon's good night bedtime stories.
0:15.0	It's the only podcast for the best part
0:18.0	is missing the ending.
0:20.0	It's bedtime the Nickelodeon way.
0:23.0	Listen to Nickelodeon's Good Night Bedtime stories, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:28.0	From the brains behind Brainson, this is the moment of um.
0:35.2	Answering those questions that make you go, um.
0:39.2	Um. Oh, um, um, um, um, um, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:45.0	uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
0:48.0	uh, uh,
0:50.0	uh, Mob which of um Cub's to you from 8 p.m. Studios, I'm Horatio, the Hedgehog.
0:59.0	As a technology savvy hedgehog, I spend a lot of my time correcting wrong information
1:08.4	posted online.
1:10.4	Ugh, oh geez, here's a post where someone's claiming hedgehogs are the fastest land animals on the planet.
1:18.0	Dear Sega Head 99, I believe the animal you're thinking of is the cheetah.
1:25.6	They can sprint at speeds of over 70 miles an hour.
1:29.5	Us hedgehogs can only hit about five miles an hour,
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