Deborah Mailman

I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who know me go, 'Oh yeah, Mailman, she's gone into her cave again.' I'm like that, a bit of a hibernating bear. Like that crocodile that just sits there in the water and doesn't do much. I was always a bit of a dreamer as a kid, so that hasn't changed.

Australian Actress

Ani DiFranco

I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.

American Musician

Kristin Cavallari

I always give myself a three-month period where I would just hibernate and wouldn't even think about the baby weight. I would just be with my baby in my own little world. And then, once I started getting more energy and wasn't so tired, then I would hit the gym.

American Actress

Brad Leone

Strawberries are like tomatoes for me; I just won't eat them year round. I'll happily wait for them to come into season, then I gorge like a brown bear eating salmon before hibernation.

American Chef

Carnie Wilson

There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll find every excuse not to exercise. I hate it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

German Scientist

Liu Xiaobo

Appreciation has become my destiny in life. Perhaps it's the instinct of a polar bear enjoying hibernation in the vast snows.

Chinese Critic

Cate Campbell

I really rely on sleep, and some people call me 'The Bear' for my hibernating.

Australian Athlete

Paolo Sorrentino

I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.

Italian Director

Poppy Delevingne

I love to shut out the world sometimes and hibernate.

English Model

Used for animals or insects that become inactive during colder months.

Seasonal Behavior

'Hibernate' implies a period of inactivity, not just a regular sleep.

Not Just Sleep

Hibernation involves slowing down the metabolism, not just motionlessness.

Metabolic Slowdown

In computing, hibernation saves energy by powering down without closing applications.

Energy Saving

Hibernate saves your current session and work, unlike simply sleeping or shutting down.

Data Preservation

Use 'hibernate' when computers are inactive for longer periods, not just short breaks.

Long-Term Inactivity

 Discourage the use of pesticides, which can harm bats when we try to feed on the insects you want to get rid of in the first place. Avoid going into caves where you might disturb hibernating bats, and always decontaminate your gear after visiting a cave. If you have unwanted bats living in an attic or barn,

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 insects such as Maude's out of the air during our recent expedition we found out that camel spiders excavate an activity of sleeping underground during extremely dry spells waiting patiently for the rains to fall day after imagine this is similar to hibernation except

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 you know it irks me to no end when your roommate accidentally goes into hibernation on the couch in the den hey you guys want to come watch football just help me move my bear first so we can use the couch it takes eight people to move a bear from the couch to the

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 Ninety percent cut down on their minutes. Seventy percent got more time to think. People told me that they slept better. They felt happier. My favorite note was from a guy who said he felt like he was waking up from a mental hibernation.

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 Barn swallows were said to remove their feathers and hibernate in holes, or sleep through the winter at the bottom of lakes and rivers. Aristotle’s final theory was much more reasonable, and resembled something like realistic migration.

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 vancouver island marmots every survivor is important for the species understanding how hibernation works is important too it may help save them every spring the male alligators put on a spectacular mating display

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 constanti's discovery proved that painted ladies travel further than anyone had thought it never hibernates instead it lives its life as a restless nomad that's always on the move

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 An arctic ground squirrel. He spends his entire winter asleep. Out like a light for eight months straight the longest, deepest hibernation of any animal on earth.

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 entire winter asleep I would like a light for eight months straight the longest deepest hibernation of any animal on earth this extreme lifestyle

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 Onboard the spacecraft, the astronauts preset the timer, enclose themselves in capsules, and fall into a deep hibernation

Hibernate

To spend the winter sleeping or inactive.

Often appears as...

For computer systems or software, to go into a low-power state without completely shutting down.

Often appears as...

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Seasonal Behavior

Not Just Sleep

Metabolic Slowdown

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