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  • Like other Southern Nevada reptiles, he enters a burrow to brumate -- the reptilian form of hibernation -- every winter and emerges when temperatures are right and the days are longer.

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2009

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  • Interestingly enough, I ran across this word in a cartoon (Little Dog Lost by Steve Boreman, 1/23/2010).

    January 23, 2010

  • Reptile Brumation.

    January 23, 2010