🐻 We Just Found Out That Some Animals Don't Actually Sleep While Hibernating

Published Jan 21, 2025, 8:04 PM

Wait... WHAT?

And Amanda jam Nation that sort of thing yesterday that you know you are you still a phone scroller?

I try not to.

I try not to be, but now I'm back at work, I do. I show. I put this on my Instagram yesterday with someone saying, you got me trying to find it now and you love this. Someone says to optimize a good night's sleep before bed, take a hot bath, get blackout curtains, watch two hundred four second videos inches from your face, and practice deep. It's pretty much what I've been doing now that I'm back at work.

I've got a thing. As soon as I put my fit you know, they got the fitbid thing and it's got their start your Sleep Session sleep Now and I put that on and literally that's my thing. Once that's on, I'm not looking through my phone.

Yeah yeah yeah. But having said that, I find interesting things like this woman.

Guys, I feel so unbelievably dumb, but I just found out on TikTok that when animals go into hibernation, they don't actually sleep the hood time. I kid you not. I thought that this was a thing because of over the Hedge. Like I blame over the hedge because remember how that beer was like really grumpy when you got woken up. I thought all animals just go to sleep for the whole time, for the whole Like I thought, there's a heap and they fell asleep.

You know, I speak Kiwi by the way, that's bear from over the hedge.

Yeah, she says, how dumb am I? I didn't know? I thought bears slept through their entire hibernation. Yeah, because all the cartoons show you that that they just go to sleep and whatever you do don't wake them up. Did you think that too, Yes, well they don't. Apparently animals don't sleep the whole time when they hibernate. Hibernation is a state of torpor, which is a period of reduced activity that allows the animals to survive in extreme temperatures. So they wake up periodically to eat, to drink, and to use the bathroom. Imagine animals using the bathroom. What are you fimism?

Hang on, but what about the tombiad?

This is I know, and I've been googling the because I've been obsessed for many years that when when the bears hibernate, this is what I'd thought, they create a tombian, which is a combination of sticks and dirt that they put up their bottom so that insects and things don't go in.

Is it a paste? They make a paste out of it.

A master Chef from the Mystery Box, Mad Preston disgustingly good.

That is a serious question.

No, that's not true. I had to Well, we'll tell you what it is. Bears don't pop pup it up there like a plug, because that's how I imagined that your new hibernation was open, was over you. He like Champagne, calls game big big bang all round the place. What happens is it's a thing called a tappan, not a tombian, and they their bodies produce it from the inside. So during hibernation, bears develop a fecal plug. I love that band in their anus, I mean dying every word. That prevents them from doing poohs pretty much when they're asleep. The plug is made up of feces, intestinal cells, hair, and bedding material. Speaking of Masterschef, and this is how it forms. Bears continue to produce feces during hibernation, but they don't defecate. Bears lick and swallow hair from their fur that passes through their intestines unchanged, and they ingest their bedding material. You're eating a giant mattress before winter, like leaves and grass and bark. When they rearrange their den, they eat that stuff, and even their foot pads. They're colous soles of their feet. In midwinter, they lick and ingest pieces of the pads. That forms this stuff inside their body that plugs up their bottom, a fecal plug in the that allows them to not have to defecate in the periods where they're sleeping, but they wake up occasionally to do it, and then I guess have to make another one. I've got to eat the mattress again. The things we learn, well, you.

Know, and I just I just had this realization. The only how I thought that hibernation happened is because of you. Hibernation. I have learnt from the font of you all these years, and you're the one. You're the one that told me about tom Beya.

Yeah, I'm sorry about that. There still is a fecal plug. You would have enjoyed the story anyway, but they don't put it in. It is formed from the inside, and they have periods of being awake and watching TV in winter they get cozy. I like it.

Only the Big Day Out was still on.

We could go and watch Fecal plugs.

Well, thanks Internet for ruining my dream.

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