Reisen in eine verborgene Welt
by Lisa Warnecke
Winter sleep is one of nature's greatest riddles. How do the animals do it? Half of the year, half of their lives, they lie cold and lifeless in a hole in the earth, without causing any damage. When we lie flat with a plaster band for only three weeks, our leg muscles become thin and weak.
In her journey into the hidden world of winter batters, biologist and researcher Lisa Warnecke tells the story of four animals, which she accompanied on four different continents under often adventurous conditions through the "winter sleep": a hedgehog in the middle of a German city, a lemur in the tropical Madagascar, a bat in the ice desert of the Canadian Adriatic Prairie and a small poultry in sunny Australia. Her book reveals widespread errors: about the fact that the animals sleep at all times during this time, that they are lying motionless all the time, or that winter bats occur only in cold areas. There are animals that fall into the "winter sleep" even at 30 ° C. They save an incredible 99 percent of their energy. The winter sleep is a success recipe for the species conservation.
Warnecke, Lisa;
205 pages; 14,5 x 29 cm;
Hardcover; 2017; C.H.Beck Verlag
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