In such a delightful, torpid state, who can worry about the wine?

The evolutionary advantage of this is that the animal need not lie around in a torpid state, vulnerable to attack.

Grypht's people could breathe even when they fell into a torpid state, but the saurial had no idea what was normal for these chirping apes.

A sustained temperature below forty-five degrees Fahrenheit will drop them into a torpid state that is unwise to break until spring.

Hibernation is a torpid state of the body, between sleep and death, where all of the vital functions slow down greatly.

Whichever leg is raised, that half of the flamingo goes to sleep in a torpid state, which lowers the blood flow.

Being in a torpid state could make them easy prey, but the large groups are apparently effective enough to deter most nocturnal predators.

Young nesting swifts can drop their body temperature and metabolic rate, entering a torpid state that allows for surviving a few days without food.

Like ungrateful vipers, who in a torpid state were harmless, they will when warmed by your benefits turn and kill you.

After awaking from a torpid state, these marsupials actively seek out areas in which they can bask in the sun to aid in this process.