How dolphins use their blubber to avoid heat stress during encounters with warm water

American Journal of Physiology - Regulatory Integrative and Comparative Physiology

Volumn 276, Issue 4 45-4, 1999, Pages

  Heath, M E ^b   Ridgway, S H ^a  

^a Naval Command   (United States)

^b Biodiv Res and Applic Association   (United States)

Author keywords

Bottlenose dolphin; Core temperature; Heat flow; Heat storage; Tursiops truncatus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; DOLPHIN; HEAT ACCLIMATIZATION; HEAT STRESS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM TEMPERATURE; SKIN TEMPERATURE; THERMOGENESIS; THERMOREGULATION; WARMING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032929617     PISSN: 03636119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpregu.1999.276.4.r1188     Document Type: Article

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