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Deep Sleeping.... Four different ways

    Scientists are studying hibernation all the time. They want to know what tells the animals to hibernate, how the animals live once their temperatures drop so low, and what tells them it’s time to wake up.

HIBERNATION Sleeping during the winter.
TORPOR Short naps.
ESTIVATION Sleeping the summer away.
DIAPAUSE Deep sleeping through growing up.

    Our web team was very interested in what happens during hibernation. In our research, we found that some facts were different depending on the source we used. The facts in this site are a combination of the many sources that we used.

    This site was made for ThinkQuest, an educational website contest for kids. We had a good time making it, but it was lots of hard work, too. Check out our plan here.