#9 A Groundhog By Any Other Name "Pasture Pig" Traditional Cache
petitcache: Not in town often enough to do maintenance so we put this one to bed.
#9 A Groundhog By Any Other Name "Pasture Pig"
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This is a series of 10 geocaches placed in honor of the groundhog. Each year groundhogs enjoy 15 minutes of fame before most people proceed to forget about them completely. So in honor of Groundhog Day here are some little-known facts about these annual celebrities.
When they sleep, they really sleep. Groundhogs are known as “true hibernators,” going into a dormant state—in which their body temperature and heart rate fall dramatically—from late fall until late winter or early spring. True hibernators are the ones that can reduce their body temp below 20 degrees Celsius. Bears for example, when they hibernate, they only drop their body temp to 30 degrees from 37 degrees Celsius. Any of the true hibernators can also reduce their heart rate down to about five beats a minute, and their body temperature can go as low as five degrees Celsius. . While groundhogs go into deep hibernation mode, there’s plenty of tossing and turning, so to speak. Hibernation is not a deep sleep that continues for the entire winter. Instead, groundhogs go through bouts of “torpor,” when their body temperature drops to about five degrees Celsius. They’ll do this for about a week, then wake up for three or four days, then go back into torpor. They do this about 12 to 20 times in the hibernation season.
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