Strategic (adaptive) hypothermia in bull dromedary camels during rut; could it increase reproductive success?

Biology Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 853-856

  Grigg, Gordon ^a   Beard, Lyn ^a   Dörges, Birgit ^b   Heucke, Jürgen ^b   Coventry, Jocelyn ^c   Coppock, Alex ^b   Blomberg, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Gutshof 2B ^*  (Australia)

^c NT Department of Primary Industry Fisheries and Mines   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive heterothermy; Camels; Reproductive fitness; Rut

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; CAPTIVE POPULATION; FITNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RUMINANT; WATER USE EFFICIENCY;

CAMELIDAE; CAMELUS DROMEDARIUS;

EID: 74549177580     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2009.0450     Document Type: Article

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