Hibernation: Not a Snooze

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

When animals are faced with scarce food in the winter, they have two choices to stay alive: migrate or hibernate. For hibernators, their bodies undergo some mind-boggling physiological changes in the coldest months. Could humans ever do it too?

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:31.2	Welcome to Stuffy Should Know from HouseofWorks.com.
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0:42.5	I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and Jerry, so this is Stuffy Should Know,
0:47.2	the podcast.
0:49.4	Can I start off with a request or advice, some advice which is in the form of a request?
0:58.6	This sounds passive-aggressive.
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