Staying hot to fight the heat-high body temperatures accompany a diurnal endothermic lifestyle in the tropics

• Main Authors: Levesque, D, Tuen, Andrew A., Lovegrove, B.G.
• Format: E-Article
• Language: English
• Published: Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany 2018
• Subjects: QL Zoology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/20036/7/Levesque%20et%20al%202018%20Staying%20hot%20to%20fight%20the%20heat%20%28abstrak%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/20036/; https://link.springer.com/journal/360; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00360-018-116
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

Much of our knowledge of the thermoregulation of endotherms has been obtained from species inhabiting cold and temperate climates, our knowledge of the thermoregulatory physiology of tropical endotherms is scarce. We studied the thermoregulatory physiology of a small, tropical mammal, the large tree...