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This allows them to remain in torpor longer, and to conserve metabolic resources.
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By going into a torpor when resting or during cold weather, they conserve energy and reduce their need for food.
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However, before entering torpor, a sugar glider will reduce activity and body temperature normally in order to lower energy expenditure and avoid torpor.
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However, during the winter they do go through a period of torpor for a certain amount of time each day.
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The drug causes torpor and prostration within minutes.
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While roosting, at least some banana pipistrelles enter daily torpor during cool weather.
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Golden moles have a low metabolic rate and are able to enter into a state of torpor in response to cold temperatures.
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This tone extends to her voice-over, which is sodden and exhausted, as if she is unable to rouse herself from the torpor within her head.
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Such states may be brief, regular circadian cycles called torpor, or they might occur in much longer, even seasonal, cycles called hibernation.
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In autumn and winter the echidna shows periods of torpor or deep hibernation.
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