do jaguars hibernate?
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Jaguars do not hibernate.\n\n"The jaguar's habitat ranges from the rain forests of South and Central America to marshy and even desert terrain in Mexico, but they are rarely seen in mountainous regions. The jaguar's wide range means that it should not be in danger of extinction in the foreseeable future. The species has declined numbers in some areas due to habitat loss, especially in rain forests and grassland turned into cropland and hunting for their pelts.\n\nKnown for their strong swimming abilities, the jaguar is one of the few cats besides tigers that enjoy water. They often prefer to live by rivers, swamps, and in dense forest with thick cover for stalking prey. They are the largest carnivore in the Western Hemisphere. Jaguars, on rare occasions, are seen as far north as the southwestern United States, particularly in Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. In the early 1900s, the jaguars' range actually extended as far north as southern California and western Texas. As recently as 2004, wildlife officials in Arizona have photographed and documented jaguars in the southern parts of the state. Presently it is unclear whether recent sightings indicate whether there is a permanent population developing in the Southwest or that these cats are simply transients straying over the border from Sonora, Mexico. However, jaguars are a protected species in the United States under the Endangered Species Act and are considered nongame, therefor making it illegal to shoot a jaguar for its pelt. Fossils of jaguars from as far north as Missouri confirm these cats inhabited much of the Southern U.S. during prehistoric times. These prehistoric jaguars were signifigantly larger than the jaguars of today."
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When fall turns to winter and the temperature dips, the food sources for the wild animals becomes very scarce.  Some animals wait out the harsh conditions of winter, constantly searching for food and shelter.  Other animals, like the bear, spend the winter in hibernation. \n     Hibernation is a dormant sleep-like state.  By going into hibernation the bears bypass winter when their food supply, nuts and berries, disappears.  Animals like the bear would find it extremely difficult to find enough food during winter, and therefore go into hibernation. \n\n     During hibernation the bear cuddles up in a cave or in a hollowed out tree, safe from the dangers of winter.  In order to survive this long period of inactivity the bear must build up its body weight by accumulating fat.  In the months before  hibernation bears can gain up to forty pounds of fat per week.   A bear’s body goes through several changes once it enters hibernation.  Its heartbeat drops from fifty-five beats per minute to ten beats per minute, and the bear’s body temperature will drop from five to nine degrees below normal.  While in hibernation the bear uses  the stored energy it accumulated as fat to survive.  So a bear can lose from fifteen to forty percent of its body weight during the winter just by sleeping! \n\n     Bears will generally enter hibernation in early October and emerge sometime in April or May, when their food is plentiful again.  The hibernation cycle is just another unique adaptation of nature that allows many animals like the bear to survive during the severe conditions of winter time. \n\nhope this helps.
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They fatten themselves up in summer/autumn. They may grow thicker fur but the most common coping mechanism is hibernation in a sheltered location where they are not exposed to the elements.
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The first point you need to realise is that bears don't really hibernate. They simply go to sleep for the winter, which is quite a different thing.\n\nIt is perfectly normal for a 'hibernating' bear to wake up and go for a walk around outside for a few hours or a few days and then go back to sleep. So that answers your question regarding bears. It will do them absolutely no harm whatsoever for them to be woken up.\n\nReal hibernating animals however are small mammals. The biggest of the true hibernators is the marmot, which is about 100X smaller than a bear. These true hibernators do not simply go to sleep, they enter a state of virtual suspended animation. All their body systems slow down. Many    systems such as the kidneys shut down entirely. Body temperature falls to just a few degrees above freezing.\n\nIt is quite impossible to wake these hibernating animals through normal means. They have a pre-programmed time clock that will wake them up, and nothing short of drugs will alter that.\n\nHowever if they are woken through the use of drugs and returned to the wild they will die. Once the annual hibernation cycle is disrupted it can't be restarted until the following autumn. Being awake in the middle of winter they will either freeze or starve to death within a day.\n\n\nIn summary: hibernation can never be disrupted without killing the hibernator. Bears however don't truly hibernate, they simply sleep, and it won't harm a bear to be disturbed during their winter sleep.\n\nHowever they will be mighty angry and probably take your head off. And having done that they will almost certainly eat you before going back to sleep.
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Ohhh yes they do!!\nEspecially higher mammals like dogs and cats.\nTheir brains are put together a lot like a human brain and when they sleep it does the same mysterious stuff our brains do every night or during napping. \nI know it's true because I have watched my sleeping dog twitch and move his legs and even have rapid eye movements!!\nThe info can be found from the source I provided.\nIt's very cool research! Good question!
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some animals in winters sleep ie the whone winter they sleep n this is not actual sleep but actually they appears dead ie no motion of body .There is no movement and it takes a long time for it to wake up enough to even walk around.before hibernation \nDuring the fall, hibernating animals eat more food than usual.  Their bodies will live off their body fat as they ‘sleep’ through winter.  The animal will use up the body fat it stores and not lose any muscle.  This causes the animal to come out of hibernation thinner but still as strong as it was in the fall.
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No, animals grow hair in response to temperature and daylength. They don't watch the calendar and decide that it;s time to grow a winter coat. Day length shortens and temperatures fall in Autumn in the southern hemisphere just as it does in the North. The names humans give to the months dont; alter those things.\n\n>>>>In the southern hemisphere Jan.-March are summer and\n>>>> July-Sept. are winter.\n\nMore commonly Dec-Feb are summer and Jun-Aug are winter.\n\n\n>>>>It can't be the temperature if he's an indoor cat and it's 70 degrees year round. \n\nIt can be if the temperature fluctuates at all between seasons. Animals usually respond to temperature changes, not to specific temperatures. Unless your house is heated to a constant 70 all winter and cooled to a constant 70 all summer, 24 hours a day, the cat could easily detect the differences.
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most people believe that animals don't have they basic intelligence to understand what you might say to them let alone understanding religion.  However since they are cold-blooded, I would say the sun.
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There is no way that we can be 100% certain if they were warm or cold blooded.  Based on the paleontological evidence such as the structure of their bones, their rates of growth, evidence of feathers, etc. most paleontologists believe that at least some dinosaurs were warm blooded.  Birds are warm blooded and if dinosaurs are, in fact, the ancestors of birds, then most likely dinosaurs (or at least those direct ancestors of birds) were warmblooded too.\n\n"Warm blooded" and "cold blooded" are generally considered archaic as there are more than just the two methods of thermo-regulation.  However, in gernal, "cold blooded" refers to an animal who's body temperature is not constant, whereas "warm blooded" animals maintain a constant body temperature.
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They they taught me this in high school. Turn in on it's back and carress it's belly slowly until it is completely relaxed (this is how they play dead for snakes; it's instinct) after about 5 minutes or so, lay him an a bed of ice and continue carressing him and adding ice to somewhat cover him. Don't freeze him to death though. Eventually he will appear dead, but will wake as he warms. They are cold blooded animals, which means they don't generate they're own heat. As you cool them down, his blood flow will slow to almost a stop. You don't want to keep him like this for too long, or he will die.
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No, lions do not live in the jungle, although some apparently  live in the forest.  Read below:\n\n"Despite the nickname King of the Jungle, most lions live on the flat, grassy plains called savannas. In ancient times, lions roamed nearly every continent. Today, they can commonly be found across central and southern Africa. There is also a small population in the Gir forest of India on the continent of Asia."
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I am unsure if it sleeps.\nHowever, its lifespan is not long so it probably does not need sleep and yawn.
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First let me tell you how Hibernation works....\n\nDuring hiberation we take snapshot of the RAM of our computer and the various registers etc. residing in all the processors of a computer.\n\nWe save it at a location in the hard disk.\n\nThen the computer is shut down.\n\nWhen we start the computer the stored contents are restored back to its previous locations.\n\nthus the computer restores to the exact same position as it was before hibernation.\n\nNow... shut down of a computer means that the ram and registers are all emptied and when we start it they are freshly loaded.\n\nWhich is better ????\n\nIts better top shut down your computer atleast once in a week. as long as this frequency is maintained...\nHibernation should not cause any harm to your computer.\n\nNow hibernation will not cause harm to the computer if used for a long time repeatedly without shuting down.\n\nall that might happen is that your system would go slow, until you Restart it.\n\nThis is because:\n\nX hours of work + Y Hours Hibernation + Z hours of work \n=\n(X+Z) hours of messing of the memory\n\nBut :\n\nX hours of work + Y Hours Shutdown + Z hours of work \n=\n(Z) hours of messing of the memory
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Yes you can, but during hibernation the system consumes more resources! This is the only problem!
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Well they dont hibernate or go into torpor like ground squirrels or bears do. They have peiods, sometimes lasting several days with reduced activity, but they will emerge on the warmer days and forage for food. They remain opportunistic during the wionter months as well, if the oportunity for food presents itself, they happily respond!
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The jaguarundi occur from southern US to South America,  right here in Argentina. _Herpailurus yaguarondi_ are the size of a wild cat or slightly bigger, but they look very "elongated", that is, their trunk and tails are relatively long, and their legs look short. In fact, their body shape and movements resemble those of a large weasel or ferret, and their scientific name translates as "reptile-like cat". In contrast with other small felids, their coats are not spotted but rather uniformly brownish-ochre or gray (both color varieties are normal), the hair is short. \nJaguarundis are not especially endangered, but people kill them because they prey on farm animals, and their natural habitat is being modified or destroyed (however, they inhabit a variety of habitats, see link).
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Most mammals lower their body temperature by 1 to 2°C during sleep, resulting in a lowering of energy metabolism by about 7-15%.