Sleeping rats, arguably the laziest animals in the animal circle, belong to the rodents, sleeping rats, named for their hibernation habits, it is also the longest hibernation time animals, their lifespan is usually 5 years. But three-quarters of the time is sleeping.
Sleeping mice are small, hibernating for about 9 months of the year, even in the non-hibernating summer, they are also sleeping, only at night will come out to find their favorite berries.
China also has two species of forest sleeping rats and Sichuan hairy tail sleeping rats, which do not store food for the winter like other rodents, but eat as much as possible to store fat for the winter. During hibernation, sleeping mice lose nearly half of their body weight, their body temperature drops, and their breathing slows down.
Although sleepy, sleeping mice have a strange set of escape skills. If its tail is caught, it quickly sheds its outer skin, leaving its enemies with only a little fur and escaping.
Although sleeping mice are very lazy, they are extremely valuable for research, they are commonly used animals in oncology research, can be applied to the study of tumor proliferation, carcinogenicity, anti-cancer, transplantation, drug screening, X-ray therapy, etc., can also be used to study the metabolic characteristics of hibernation.
Many netizens expressed their hope that they can also raise such a cute and cute animal, because they are lazy, and they are too lazy to care about them, if it is you, will you like it?
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