Seasonal use of torpor by free-ranging Australian owlet-nightjars (Aegotheles cristatus)

Physiological and Biochemical Zoology

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 613-620

  Brigham, R M ^a   Kortner G ^a   Maddocks, T A ^a   Geiser, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; ENERGETICS; SEASONAL VARIATION; TORPOR;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; THERMOREGULATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIRDS; BODY TEMPERATURE; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALIA;

AEGOTHELES CRISTATUS; ANIMALIA; ARTHROPODA; AVES; CAPRIMULGIDAE; HEXAPODA; PHALAENOPTILUS; PHALAENOPTILUS NUTTALLII; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034518579     PISSN: 15222152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/317755     Document Type: Article

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