{"id":1465,"date":"2020-09-22T11:32:44","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:05:00","slug":"biology-professor-kenneth-storey-speaks-on-animal-hibernation-in-this-published-article-with-cbc-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2020\/biology-professor-kenneth-storey-speaks-on-animal-hibernation-in-this-published-article-with-cbc-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Biochemistry Professor Kenneth Storey Speaks on Animal Hibernation in this Published Article with CBC Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Biochemistry Professor Kenneth Storey Speaks on Animal Hibernation in this Published Article with CBC Radio\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Biochemistry Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/ken-storey\/\">Kenneth Storey<\/a> from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenstoreylab.com\/\">Storey lab<\/a>. Comments on hibernating tendencies, and certain rehabilitating traits some animals go through once they are through hibernating in a CBC radio article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When ground squirrels emerge in the spring after hibernating all winter, their guts shrink to about half their original weight, but their hearts remain unaffected because they need to keep beating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guts aren&#8217;t the only thing that shrink. &#8220;When male ground squirrels wake up in the spring, they have to grow a pair because they&#8217;ve regressed their gonads down to almost nothing.&#8221;&nbsp; Said <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/ken-storey\/\">Kenneth Storey<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/radio\/quirks\/sep-19-woodpecker-wars-hibernating-squid-viking-dna-and-covid-vaccines-1.5729266\/unlocking-the-secrets-of-jumbo-squid-hibernation-might-improve-human-medicine-1.5729270\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biochemistry Professor Kenneth Storey from the Storey lab. Comments on hibernating tendencies, and certain rehabilitating traits some animals go through once they are through hibernating in a CBC radio article. 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