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IT is known that during the winter months some animals adjust themselves to unfavourable living conditions, particularly food shortage, by hibernation. This leads to a considerable lowering of the total metabolism and a drop in body temperature which enable the animals to survive the winter with a minimum consumption of nutrient.
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BRAUN, T., MOSINGER, B. Effect of Hypothermia on Death by Starvation. Nature 181, 968 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181968a0
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