Validation of a biotelemetric technique, using ambulatory miniature black globe thermometers, to quantify thermoregulatory behaviour in ungulates

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological Genetics and Physiology

Volumn 307, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 342-356

  Hetem, Robyn S ^a   Maloney, Shane K ^a,b   Fuller, Andrea ^a   Meyer, Leith C R ^a   Mitchell, Duncan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMAL; MICROCLIMATE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; THERMOMETER; THERMOREGULATION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MAMMALS; MICROCLIMATE; SOUTH AFRICA; THERMOMETERS;

AEPYCEROS MELAMPUS; ANIMALIA; CONNOCHAETES TAURINUS; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS; UNGULATA;

EID: 34250314178     PISSN: 19325223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jez.389     Document Type: Article

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