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# Why Don’t Humans Hibernate?
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/its-okay-be-smart/episode/why-dont-humans-hibernate-0qtkjd/
- Published: 2024-10-17T15:31:43.000Z
- Updated: 2025-08-20T09:55:59.000Z
- Description: Nature has had to come up with some crazy ways to survive winter. None are weirder than hibernation.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Be Smart, Season 12, Episode 14, #ZZZ_Episode_fc6a7447-0b30-4d98-b2de-e480da87157c, #episode, #ZZZ_Show_dc38a6e9-266e-43c1-b647-45e7445fad27, #v1.16

Nature has had to come up with some crazy ways to survive harsh winters. But none are weirder than hibernation. Turns out there is more than one kind of hibernation, and studying all these ways that life slows down in the cold might help humans one day become an interplanetary species.