"If I don't exercise I get less fit, and am less able to do highly active things".............. "So I wondered if some animals need to spend time and energy on voluntary exercise so that they are fit enough to out-run predators, win over mates or hunt down prey"---A fascinating question explored by Dr Lewis Halsey of Roehampton University...............Enjoy the read below

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/sciencedaily/plants_animals/ecology/~3/LG23HZSCFI8/160120202248.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email

Do animals exercise to keep fit?

Date:

January 20, 2016

Source:

British Ecological Society (BES)

A Hibernating Black Bear does  not lose muscle tone over

its Winter sleep---Fascinating, as we humans wither

if in a hospital laid up for a couple of weeks

A Black Bear wakes from hibernation and can go "full tilt", none

the worse for having been semi-comatose for months.....Not

the case with us human animals