Examples of torpor in the following topics:
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- Animals adapt to extremes of temperature or food availability through torpor.
- Torpor is a process that leads to a decrease in activity and metabolism, which allows animals to survive adverse conditions.
- Torpor can be used by animals for long periods.
- If torpor occurs during the summer months with high temperatures and little water, it is called estivation.
- Torpor can occur on a daily basis; this is seen in bats and hummingbirds.
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- Some animals have adapted to enable their bodies to survive significant temperature fluctuations, as seen in hibernation or reptilian torpor.
- Animals that hibernate or estivate enter a state known as torpor, a condition in which their metabolic rate is significantly lowered.
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- Damage to the NA or VTA can produce a state of profound torpor.
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- Poikilothermic animals include many species of fish, amphibians, and reptiles, as well as birds and mammals that lower their metabolism and body temperature as part of hibernation or torpor.