Hibernation of Marmots in the Alps

The hibernation of the marmots is like a long nap, it lasts for 5 months and the animals that hibernate are mainly bears but also marmots in our mountains. They hibernate in the mountains because it is their places of life, but before they stock food to survive Once winter arrives, alpine marmots huddle next to each other and begin hibernation, a process which lowers their heart rate to five beats per minute and breathing to 1–3 breaths per minute During hibernation their stored fat supplies are used slowly, which usually allows them to survive the winter. Their body temperature will drop to almost the same as the air around them, although their heart and breathing rates will speed up if the environment approaches freezing point. When the heat is back they wake up and they go outside . The journalists from 5 èmes