Nocturnal variation in body temperature of Griffon Vultures

Condor

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 168-171

  Bahat, Ofer ^a,c   Choshniak, Itzhak ^a   Houston, David C ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ambient temperature; Body core temperature; Daily temperature variation; Food deprivation; Griffon Vulture; Gyps fulvus

Indexed keywords

GYPS FULVUS;

EID: 0031906818     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1369911     Document Type: Article

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