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a friend was gathering some fallen wood for kindling and happened upon this group of carpenter bees hibernating for the winter. It's interesting that there are so many in one hole, as i thought they were a fairly solitary animal that built individual homes.
for those worrying of the fate of these bees, i have placed them in a shaded and dry spot to finish out they're winter
When snow fell in our garden, I found this gnome sleeping comfortably under a white, soft blanket of snow.
hibernating leaf-tail gecko (uroplatus). when they don't have enough food or the temperature is to low they go into an hibernation state and act as a leaf.
Even Death Valley gets cold enough in the winter to cause bats to hibernate in the old mine shafts. These two were so sound asleep that you could stroke their fur.