Can hedgehogs hibernate?

1. Hedgehog is a typical animal with different temperatures. The thermoregulation mechanism of these animals is between warm-blooded animals and warm-blooded animals.

2. Hedgehogs can maintain a fairly constant body temperature during non-hibernation, just like warm-blooded animals, but enter hibernation during hibernation season, and their body temperature remains about 2℃ above the ambient temperature, which changes with the environment.

Hedgehogs hibernate for six or seven months. After entering hibernation, their body temperature drops and other physiological functions are weakened.

For example, a conscious hedgehog breathes about 50 times a minute, hibernating up to 8 times, sometimes only once, or even for a few minutes. The conscious hedgehog's heartbeat is 200 times per minute, and it is reduced to 20 times during hibernation.

Extended data:

Thermotropic animals have the following thermoregulatory characteristics:

In the active period, the temperature can be kept at an appropriate level by adopting the regulation mechanism of warm-blooded animals. When entering the rest, in order to reduce the metabolic need to maintain body temperature, lower the body temperature, so that the body temperature is only a little higher than the ambient temperature.

Typical representative animals are hedgehogs and bats. They all belong to lower mammals. Besides, hummingbirds are warm animals.

References:

Hedgehog (Mammal) _ Baidu Encyclopedia