Estivation or Aestivation among Animals is a deep prolonged sleep, that occurs in the summer or dry season in response to heat and/or drought. They can lower there metobolic rate to do this. Unless i have lead myself up the wrong path, the Tortoise can do this also for winter and only mammals truely Hibernate. So the Tortoise is capable of Estivating most of the year, a winter and a summer as some of the S.Africans do.

in fact.. that is what torts do, they don't hibernate, they brumate. i remember that i read that now. it is not true hibernation, i think only mammals hibernate, not 100% sure though

God....they are like big girls blouse's really, arent they!!
Oh its too warm....so i think I will Aestivate
Oh its too cold...so I think I will Aestivate again.
Oh theres a drought....I think I will Aestivate.

I dont want to go to work....so I think I will Aestivate.

I thought that was a cross between Birmingham and Austrailia, mate!! :lol:

I could do with some aestivation tablets then i might not hear that ******* milkman at 5.20 every mornin with his ******* diesel engined pick up

Brumation not totaly sure as it applies to Hibernation but not quite the same.:?:
Brumation a lethargic state in Reptiles and some other animals, eg Bears.
So it is just an other word for Hibernation/Estivation, is it, can it, was it.:-P

Are you doing this to torment me...

hibernation, aestivation, brumation, fornication, reincarnation .. where will it all end :)

:grin::grin: i'm sure we used to do a bit of Estivation millions of years ago, sit and wait for better weather to go out clubbing.

stop stop....