Dormancy - Animals

Animals

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Animal dormancy
  • Torpor
  • Hibernation
    • Hibernaculum
    • HIT
  • Aestivation
  • Cryptobiosis
  • Brumation
  • Diapause
    • Embryonic diapause
  • Winter rest
  • Critical thermal maximum
  • Sleep (non-human)

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    The greatness of man is so evident that it is even proved by his wretchedness. For what in animals is nature, we call in man wretchedness—by which we recognize that, his nature being now like that of animals, he has fallen from a better nature which once was his.
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