Ambient temperature does not affect the tactile sensitivity of mystacial vibrissae in harbour seals

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 201, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 3023-3029

  Dehnhardt, G ^a   Mauck, B ^a   Hyvarinen H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Difference threshold; Harbour seal; Infrared thermography; Phoca vitulina; Temperature regulation; Texture discrimination; Vibrissae

Indexed keywords

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COLD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; IMMERSION; MECHANORECEPTOR; PHOCA; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY; TOUCH; VASOCONSTRICTION; VIBRISSA;

ACCLIMATIZATION; ANIMALS; COLD; HUMANS; IMMERSION; MECHANORECEPTORS; SEALS, EARLESS; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGRAPHY; TOUCH; VASOCONSTRICTION; VIBRISSAE;

ANIMALIA; PHOCA VITULINA; PHOCIDAE; PINNIPEDIA;

EID: 0032215668     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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