Does size matter? Comparison of body temperature and activity of free-living Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx) and the smaller Arabian sand gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa marica) in the Saudi desert

Journal of Comparative Physiology B: Biochemical, Systemic, and Environmental Physiology

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 437-449

  Hetem, Robyn Sheila ^a   Strauss, Willem Maartin ^a,b,c   Fick, Linda Gayle ^a   Maloney, Shane Kevin ^a,d   Meyer, Leith Carl Rodney ^a   Shobrak, Mohammed ^b,e   Fuller, Andrea ^a   Mitchell, Duncan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b National Commission for Wildlife Conservation and Development   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e TAIF UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Antelope; Biologging; Cathemerality; Heterothermy

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANTELOPE; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMIDITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SAUDI ARABIA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TELEMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTELOPES; BODY SIZE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; HUMIDITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SAUDI ARABIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TELEMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

GAZELLA SUBGUTTUROSA MARICA; ORYX; ORYX LEUCORYX; UNGULATA;

EID: 84858740688     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-011-0620-0     Document Type: Article

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