Out in the tundra the Arctic ground squirrel is awakening from his eight month hibernation, the longest deepest hibernation of any animal on Earth and pretty soon the females will awake too. Taken from Wild Alaska. Subscribe: http://bit.ly/BBCEarthSub

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