As the bear enters hibernation, its metabolic processes such as body temperature, heart rate, and respiratory rate are reduced. But bears do not lower the body temperature as much as once thought. Their hibernation temperature is around 88 degrees and waking temperature is 100 degrees F. This relatively high sleeping temperature allows bears to become fully alert if aroused, perhaps to enable the bear to protect itself from predators and other dangers without unnecessarily taxing their energy reserves. Over the course of a hibernating season it is thought that bears use approximately 4 thousand calories a day, which results in a weight loss of about 20 percent of it body weight by spring.
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D. the dynamic regulation of an organism's internal environment to maintain conditions suitable for survival.
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The answer is A. a natural disaster killed off the population by flooding their habitat.
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The oldest fossil evidence that geochemists have been able to find in deposits in Pilbara, Australia, and South Africa have been dated to 3.5 bya. In addition, organic compounds that may be the result of those produced by organisms have been dated, also in Greenland, to 3.8 bya.
