Thermoregulation and nocturnal heterothermy in the white-backed mousebird (Colius colius)

Thermoregulatory patterns, the use of rest-phase heterothermy, the energetic significance of clustering behaviour, and the role of sunning behaviour in thermoregulation were assessed in the white-backed mousebird Colius colius, an southern African arid zone species. I hypothesised that C. colius mak...

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Main Author: Mckechnie, Andrew Edward.
Other Authors: Lovegrove, Barry Gordon.
Language:en_ZA
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10413/10271