In the long cold winter months when I felt lazy and warm in bed, cuddled inside a soft blanket, I often wished that I was one of the mammals that went into hibernation. A bear or maybe even a bat.
Today I read that hibernating bats should never be woken before they are ready to. The 30-minute waking up process causes bats to use most of their stored fat. And if they cannot find food to replace their lost energy, they die.
Imagine that! You wake up from a long lazy sleep to die a long painful death.
Now, I will think twice about wanting to hibernate.