Huddling in groups leads to daily energy savings in free-living African Four-Striped Grass Mice, Rhabdomys pumilio

Functional Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 166-173

  Scantlebury, M ^a   Bennett, N C ^a   Speakman, J R ^b   Pillay, N ^c   Schradin, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Daily energy expenditure; Doubly labelled water; Resting metabolic rate; Sociality; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

ENERGETICS; NUTRIENT; RODENT; THERMOREGULATION;

ANIMALIA; RHABDOMYS PUMILIO;

EID: 33645212313     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2006.01074.x     Document Type: Article

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