Life in the cold

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Cossins and Barnes (1996), referring to the Tenth International Hibernation Symposium at Cradle Mountain in Tasmania, observed that the "traditional northern hemispheric view (of hibernation) was upended ..... when it was acknowledged that a surprisingly large proportion of mammals from down under, including a monotreme ... and various marsupial and placental species, routinely enter daily torpor and seasonal hibernation, often under surprisingly mild conditions".