Out cold … in Sunrise, Florida, US, conservation officials are dealing with a spate of iguanas in torpor, handed in by residents who have found the reptiles immobilised by the cold. If temperatures drop low enough, iguanas will drop out of trees and stay immobile until they manage to warm up again.

Photograph: Cristóbal Herrera/EPA

#photography
#iguana
#torpor

Tiny radio transmitters reveal a hidden survival tactic in birds https://theconversation.com/tiny-radio-transmitters-reveal-a-hidden-survival-tactic-in-birds-274517 Paper by Alice Barratt et al.: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(26)00011-4

"During and after the extreme rain events, the #birds remained in their burrows and they entered deep and long bouts of #torpor—far exceeding what passerine birds were thought capable of. Such torpor is crucial for these in-flight foragers to survive when wet and cold conditions suppress the activity of flying #insects"

How Hummingbirds Chill Out To Survive Cold Nights

"Due to their high metabolism and small body size, hummingbirds have rigid metabolic budgets, so they rely on torpor to conserve energy every night."

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#torpor #cold #environment #ecology #hummingbirds #ornithology #metabolism #energy https://medium.com/grrlscientist/how-hummingbirds-chill-out-to-survive-cold-nights-5819171d1695

How Hummingbirds Chill Out To Survive Cold Nights

"Due to their high metabolism and small body size, hummingbirds have rigid metabolic budgets, so they rely on torpor to conserve energy every night."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#torpor #cold #environment #ecology #hummingbirds #ornithology #metabolism #energy https://medium.com/grrlscientist/how-hummingbirds-chill-out-to-survive-cold-nights-5819171d1695

How Hummingbirds Chill Out To Survive Cold Nights

"Due to their high metabolism and small body size, hummingbirds have rigid metabolic budgets, so they rely on torpor to conserve energy every night."

#SciComm by @GrrlScientist

#torpor #cold #environment #ecology #hummingbirds #ornithology #metabolism #energy https://medium.com/grrlscientist/how-hummingbirds-chill-out-to-survive-cold-nights-5819171d1695

How Hummingbirds Chill Out To Survive Cold Nights

"Due to their high metabolism and small body size, hummingbirds have rigid metabolic budgets, so they rely on torpor to conserve energy every night."

#SciComm by @grrlscientist

#torpor #cold #environment #ecology #hummingbirds #ornithology #metabolism #energy https://medium.com/grrlscientist/how-hummingbirds-chill-out-to-survive-cold-nights-5819171d1695

BASTARD IDOL Tape Release w/ Torpor, Human Form, The Not + Secrete Guest

Turbo Haüs, Saturday, January 17 at 08:00 PM EST

CRIMINAL TRAP VOL. 2

January 17 @ Turbohaus

TORPOR (Montreal/Sherbrooke/Toronto) - rare ltd oop 2016 chromatic hardcore

https://torporsanglante.bandcamp.com/album/wasted-innocence

HUMAN FORM (Toronto) - tupa tupa agathocles

https://ih8humanform.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2023

BASTARD IDOL (Montreal/Toronto) - raw punk, tape release

https://2025.demo-fest.org/bastard-idol-demo-2025/

THE NOT - blood spit pogo

https://biblicallyaccuratebandcamp.bandcamp.com/album/lp-i

+ SECRETE GUEST

$15 / PWYC / NOTAFLOF

ROCKERS OF THE AGES OF EIGHTEEN AND UP MAY ATTEND

Doors @ 8:00

First band @ 9:00

flyer by alex apostolidis

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/bastard-idol-tape-release-with-torpor-human-form-the-not-secrete-guest

Snow is back. Pushed some of it around.

Did the bi-annual Bialetti deep clean, the smell of citric acid wafting through the kitchen.

#Torpor