Without a calendar, it was hard for Su Mao to tell when it was late autumn and early winter.
However, as the weather turned cold, the temperature dropped. Su Mao could not wake up.
Brown bears were lethargic, especially young bears.
Su Mao could now sleep more than ten hours a day. He would only go out for exercise in the morning and evening.
Da Mao and Er Mao had been living a miserable life recently. The last time they ate too much weed, it caused them to have a stomachache.
After two or three days of stomachache, the two silly kids were tormented.
Fortunately, the brown bear was born with a strong physique. The diarrhea only caused some dehydration and did not cause any more serious injuries.
It wasn't easy for him to stop having a stomachache, but as winter was about to arrive, Su Mao started to clean the cave again.
Su Mao laid new weeds as a mattress and tried his best to make his first hibernation more comfortable.
The days passed like this. When the first snow came, Su Mao knew that he had entered his first hibernation period.
As the spirit of all living things, humans had systematically studied many animals, including bears. In fact, not all bears hibernated.
Bears in the tropics did not need to hibernate because of the hot weather and abundant food. There were even a few bears in cold regions that never hibernated.
Moreover, bears hibernated differently from cold-blooded animals. They would wake up at any time. Usually, once or twice a month, the bear would wake up because it was rolling over or because it was hungry.
Most of the bears would change their positions and continue sleeping after waking up. A few would go out to find something to eat when they were too hungry.
Therefore, it was not rare to see bears in the snowy mountains in winter. It could even be said to be very common.
However, these so-called investigations and studies were all analyzed from the perspective of humans. No one had ever really experienced the hibernation of bears.
Su Mao was either lucky or unlucky to be the first human to experience hibernation.
Apart from hibernation, this was also the first time Su Mao had seen snow.
Snowflakes fell from the sky like fairies. Su Mao's recent drowsiness was replaced by the excitement of seeing snowflakes.
Walking out of the cave, Su Mao stood in the snow, still wrapped in the snow.
The cold wind was bone-piercing, and he could feel it from his wet nose. However, not only was the thick fur covering his body not cold, but there was also a heat emanating from his body.
Su Mao was like a child running in the snow, leaving his footprints on the empty snow where no animals had stepped on.
Like Su Mao, it was Da Mao and Er Mao's first time seeing snow.
The two little fellows were also very excited. Da Mao had tried to catch the snowflakes with his claws more than once, but every time the snowflakes landed on his palm, they would melt and disappear in a short time.
Da Mao was very surprised. Why did these white things disappear?
They played happily until Mother Bear called for them to stop.、
The snow had sealed the mountains, and the entire world was covered in white. Mother Bear was also preparing to enter hibernation.
Encountering wolves before winter brought a huge crisis to the family, but it also brought huge benefits.
Not to mention the elk, just the few gray wolves killed by the family were enough for Mother Bear to survive a stable winter.
Having too much food was also a happy annoyance.、
Su Mao had once tried to hide the corpses of elk and gray wolves to serve as backup food during winter when they were hungry.
But where was it hidden?
The cave was obviously unreliable. The smell of blood from the corpses was enough to attract all the wild beasts within a few kilometers.
Doing so would only ensnare oneself and put oneself in a very dangerous situation.
Burying the food on the spot was another method. However, as the weather turned cold, the ground of the forest gradually froze. Although it was not as difficult to dig as the permafrost, it was not much better.
Su Mao's 30-centimeter sharp claws dug for half an hour, but he only dug out a hole the size of a washbasin. This size was enough to bury a mouse.
Therefore, the plan to bury them on the spot could only be abandoned.
There was no way to hide the food, so Su Mao could only eat it all extravagantly.
During those few days, Su Mao's family was full every day.
Su Mao felt that his daily sleepiness might be closely related to the fact that he had eaten too much previously.
All in all, when the first snowfall came, Su Mao finally began his hibernation.
Inside the cave.
Mother Bear slept on the outermost side, sheltering her from the wind and snow while keeping an eye out for danger at any time.
The three little bears slept in the cave, and the weakest Er Mao slept in the deepest part of the cave. Su Mao slept in the middle.
If nothing unexpected happened, their family would spend more than five months in this cave. They would not leave the cave until the spring of the next year.
As usual, Mother Bear was the first to fall asleep.
It was still daytime and it was snowing heavily outside, but Su Mao couldn't fall asleep.
Was there any difference between hibernating and sleeping normally?
If there was, how should he fall asleep?
One question after another appeared in Su Mao's mind. Facing the first hibernation in his life, Su Mao couldn't sleep...
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