Although I have said that the water bear does not undergo any form of metabolism during cryptobiosis, it actually has a metabolic rate of 0.1%, rendering it almost dead, but yet, not dead.

尽管我刚才说过水熊在隐生状态下没有，上它还是有0.1%的，表现出来的状态是假死状态，而不是真正的死亡状态。