Does torpor of elephant shrews differ from that of other heterothermic mammals?

Journal of Mammalogy

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 452-459

  Geiser, Fritz ^a,b   Mzilikazi, Nomakwezi ^a  

^a NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

body temperature; cooling and rewarming rates; Macroscelidea; torpor occurrence and duration

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TORPOR;

ELEPHANTULUS EDWARDII; MACROSCELIDEA; MAMMALIA; SORICIDAE;

EID: 79955090260     PISSN: 00222372     EISSN: 15451542     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1644/10-MAMM-A-097.1     Document Type: Article

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