Body temperature in captive long-beaked echidnas (Zaglossus bartoni)

Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology - A Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 911-916

  Grigg, Gordon C ^a   Beard, Lyn A ^a   Barnes, Julie A ^b   Perry, Larry I ^b   Fry, Gary J ^b,c   Hawkins, Margaret ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Zoological Parks Board of NSW   (Australia)

^c Alice Springs Desert Park (K Moylan) Alice Springs   (Australia)

Author keywords

Body temperature; Long beaked echidna; Zaglossus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUSTRALIA; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHIDNA; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HIBERNATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE; MALE; MONITORING; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PLATYPUS; SPECIES; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

MONOTREMATA; TACHYGLOSSIDAE; TACHYGLOSSUS ACULEATUS; ZAGLOSSUS; ZAGLOSSUS BRUIJNI;

EID: 0344436669     PISSN: 10956433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cbpb.2003.09.004     Document Type: Conference Paper

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