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Hummingbirds use torpor in varying ways to survive cold temps, finds study.
Researchers caught 249 hummingbirds representing 29 different species living in the Andes Mountains.
Small birds were more likely to use it than large birds, but only at low ambient temperatures, where torpor lasted three hours or more.
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