The cube-shaped, two-story building is so airtight that Mr. Konkol, a 55-year-old family physician who bikes 16 miles every day to his practice, knows itiswindy outside only from seeing trees moving through the window.
In the same way, they hibernate by going into torpor, they can do the same thing on a very short-term basis through the summer - if itis wet and windy and there is no food then they just shut down their body temperature and they just sleep it out.