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Figure 36 Entrance into hibernation of two marmots: (a) a smooth entry, (b) an irregular entry. The blue and orange bars indicate periods of hypothalamic cooling (blue) and heating (orange). Thy is the hypothalamic temperature and Ts is the skin temperature. The arrows in (b) indicate irregular bursts of raised rate of metabolism