Why Do Bears Hibernate?
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For the next six months, she will not eat, drink, urinate, or defecate — and in the middle of it, in a dark den under the snow, she will give birth. Tonight: the bear's winter, start to finish. The autumn feast that funds it, twenty hours a day of eating. The den, dug one ton of earth at a time. A heart slowed to nine beats a minute. And then, the slow spring waking.
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