Staying cold through dinner: Cold-climate bats rewarm with conspecifics but not sunset during hibernation

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

Volumn 183, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 859-866

  Czenze, Zenon J ^a   Park, Andrew D ^a   Willis, Craig K R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chiroptera; Circadian rhythms; Periodic arousal; Social thermoregulation; White nose syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BAT; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLD CLIMATE; FEMALE; HIBERNATION; MALE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; AROUSAL; CHIROPTERA; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLD CLIMATE; FEMALE; HIBERNATION; MALE; PHOTOPERIOD; SKIN TEMPERATURE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84880588928     PISSN: 01741578     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00360-013-0753-4     Document Type: Article

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