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. 2020 May 20;11:436. doi: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00436

TABLE 1.

The hibernation season when multiday torpor (>2 days) can be used by birds and mammals.

All year
Eastern pygmy possum, Cercartetus nanus (Geiser, 2007)
Long-eared bat, Nyctophilus geoffroyi (Turbill et al., 2003; Turbill and Geiser, 2008)
Edible dormouse, Glis glis (Mrosovsky, 1977; Hoelzl et al., 2015)
Garden dormouse, Eliomys quercinus (Daan, 1973)
Summer to spring
Echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus (Grigg et al., 1989; Nicol and Andersen, 2007)
Anatolian ground squirrel, Spermophilus xanthoprymnus (Kart Gür et al., 2009)
Arctic ground squirrel, Urocitellus/Spermophilus parryii (Barnes, 1996)
Columbian ground squirrel, Urocitellus/Spermophilus columbianus (Young, 1990)
Richardson’s ground squirrel, Urocitellus/Spermophilus richardsonii (Wang, 1978)
Golden-mantled ground squirrel, Callospermophilus/Spermophilus saturatus (Barnes, 1996)
Woodchuck, Marmota monax (Zervanos et al., 2010)
Autumn to summer
Little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus (Jonasson and Willis, 2012; Johnson et al., 2019)
Brandt’s bat, Myotis brandtii (Podlutsky et al., 2005)
Hodgson’s bat, Myotis formosus (Kim et al., 2013)
Jumping mouse, Zapus princeps (Cranford, 1978)
Autumn to spring
Mountain pygmy-possum, Burramys parvus (Körtner and Geiser, 1998)
Fat-tailed dwarf lemur, Cheirogaleus medius (Dausmann, 2014)
Dwarf lemur, Cheirogaleus crossleyi (Blanco et al., 2013; Dausmann, 2014)
European hedgehog, Erinaceus europaeus (Walhovd, 1979)
Algerian hedgehog Atelerix algericus (Mouhoub-Sayah et al., 2008)
Greater horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Park et al., 2000)
Big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus (French, 1985)
Indiana bat, Myotis sodalis (Clawson et al., 1980)
Mouse-tailed bat, Rhinopoma microphyllum (Levin et al., 2015)
Mouse-tailed bat, Rhinopoma cystops (Levin et al., 2015)
Brown bear, Ursos arctos (Evans et al., 2016)
Yellow-pine chipmunk, Tamias amoenus (Barnes, 1996)
Townsend’s chipmunk, Tamias townsendi (Barnes, 1996)
Siberian chipmunk, Eutamias sibiricus (Kawamichi and Kawamichi, 1993)
Golden-mantled ground squirrel, Callospermophilus/Spermophilus lateralis (Healy et al., 2012)
Daurian ground squirrel, Spermophilus dauricus (Yang et al., 2011)
Thirteen-lined ground squirrel, Ictidomys/Spermophilus tridecemlineatus (Kisser and Goodwin, 2012)
Alpine marmot, Marmota marmota (Arnold, 1993)
Alaska marmot, Marmota broweri (Lee et al., 2009)
Yellow-bellied marmot, Marmota flaviventris (French, 1985)
Prairie dog, Cynomys parvidens (Lehmer and Biggins, 2005)
European hamster, Cricetus cricetus (Wassmer, 2004; Siutz et al., 2016)
Common or hazel dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius (Pretzlaff and Dausmann, 2012)
Woolly dormouse, Dryomys laniger (Kart Gür et al., 2014)
Birch mouse, Sicista betulina (Eisentraut, 1956)
Autumn to winter
Armadillo, Zaedyus pichiy (Superina and Boily, 2007)
African hedgehog, Atelerix frontalis (Hallam and Mzilikazi, 2011)
Winter to spring
Pygmy slow loris, Nycticebus pygmaeus (Ruf et al., 2015)
European free-tailed bat, Tadarida teniotis (Arlettaz et al., 2000)
Formosan leaf-nosed bat, Hipposideros terasensis (Liu and Karasov, 2011)
Black bear, Ursus americanus (Toien et al., 2011)
Eastern chipmunk, Tamias striatus (Landry-Cuerrier et al., 2008)
Jerboa, Jaculus orientalis (El Ouezzani et al., 2011)
Winter
Poorwill, Phalaenoptilus nuttallii (Woods et al., 2019)
Western pygmy-possum, Cercartetus concinnus, field (Turner et al., 2012b)
European badger, Meles meles (Fowler and Racey, 1988).
Spring
Golden mole, Amblysomus hottentottus longiceps (Scantlebury et al., 2008)

Only species for which long-term data are available are listed and the most pronounced pattern observed for each species is reported.