To bask or not to bask: Behavioural thermoregulation in two species of dasyurid, Phascogale calura and Antechinomys laniger

Journal of Thermal Biology

Volumn 53, Issue , 2015, Pages 66-71

  Stannard, Hayley J ^a   Fabian, Megan ^a   Old, Julie M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basking; Food availability; Heterothermic; Marsupial; Thermoregulation; Torpor

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTECHINOMYS LANIGER; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BASKING; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HEAT; MALE; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; PHASCOGALE CALURA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THERMOREGULATION; TORPOR; WARMING; ANIMAL; LOCOMOTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; LOCOMOTION; MARSUPIALIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84940643641     PISSN: 03064565     EISSN: 18790992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2015.08.012     Document Type: Article

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