![]() ![]() They deliver a couple of cubs, snack on the placenta, then go back into hibernation, nursing and tending their cubs in a state of semi-alertness until spring. Surreally, black bear sows give birth halfway through their hibernation. ![]() They’re just sort of slowed down and out of it. ![]() Black bear hibernation isn’t the same as sleep. Not a problem, because the mother bear eats it-partly as cleanup, but mostly as food. Hibernating bears reabsorb their urine and form a "fecal plug." Cubs, on the other hand, let it go inside the den. Erin McCarthyġ. You may be wondering: When you live off your own fat, do you need to use the toilet? If you are a bear, you do not. ![]() The footnotes in Roach’s latest offering, Fuzz : When Nature Breaks the Law, are as funny and interesting as ever from Clark Gable's mountain lion to the incredible aim of seagulls, below are a few of our favorites. in a folder and I can’t find a way to fit it in that isn’t distracting or annoying for the reader, I’ll put it in a footnote.” So it’s just me being indulgent,” Roach told us in 2014 of her process for deciding what becomes a footnote. “It’s material that doesn’t really fit the narrative, but I can’t bear to leave out. There are few diversions more delightful than the footnotes in author Mary Roach’s books, which are anything but boring-instead, like the rest of her work, they take the reader to places both informative and hilarious. ![]()
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