During night-time torpor, body temperature falls from 40 to 18 °C, with heart and breathing rates both slowed dramatically (heart rate to roughly 50 to 180 beats per minute from its daytime rate of higher than 1000).
Durante o torpor nocturno, a temperatura corporal cae de 40 a 18 °C, e as frecuencias cardíacas e respiratoria diminúen drasticamente (a cardíaca ata valores de 50 a 180 latexos por minuto cando de día é superior a 1 000).