Yes, yellow bellied sliders can live in cold water but there is a proper temperature range to keep them healthy (75-80°F). They will survive in colder water but it will prompt turtles to hibernate which slows down their metabolism and not allow them to absorb nutrients from food efficiently. DoRead More →

Generally speaking, tropical tortoises such as the leopard tortoise don’t need to hibernate. Hibernating can be risky for very small tortoises, so never try to hibernate a sick or underweight tortoise that has not fed well throughout the summer. Can tortoises survive without hibernation? Far too many owners lose theirRead More →

JPA is the interface while Hibernate is the implementation. Traditionally there have been multiple Java ORM solutions: each implementation defining its own mapping definition or client API. The JPA expert group gathered the best of all these tools and so they created the Java Persistence API standard. Which is betterRead More →

The sun bears (Ursus malayanus) and sloth bears (Melursus ursinus) of Southeast Asia do not hibernate. Nor do the spectacled bears (Tremarctos ornatus) of South America. All live in climates without significant seasonal shortages of food and thus need not den up for winter. Do grizzlies hibernate? Grizzlies experience threeRead More →

During the winter months they will shelter in holes in the ground, or under tree roots, or piles of brash and stone. They start to wake up in early spring, and immediately move back into their breeding ponds. Do great crested newts hibernate UK? Great Crested Newts hibernate between OctoberRead More →

The clue to this difference lies in where the lemurs bed down. The tree holes used by fat-tails are exposed to the elements – and their body temperature reflects this. The eastern lemurs hunker down in cosy underground burrows where the temperature stays at 15 °C. Are ring tailed lemursRead More →