Briefly reading through the paper, an echidna is capable of using cold as a resource and enters hibernation to not escape extreme weather of food scarcity, but purely to conserve energy. Scientists measured the body temperature of free range echnidnas and the soil near their hibernation locations to analyze how echindna take habitat temperature into account when entering hibernation.

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