Coping with heat: behavioural and physiological responses of savanna elephants in their natural habitat

Most of southern Africa's elephants inhabit environments where environmental temperatures exceed body temperature, but we do not know how elephants respond to such environments. We evaluated the relationships between apparent thermoregulatory behaviour and environmental, skin and core temperatu...

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Autores principales: Mole, Michael A, Rodrigues DÁraujo, Shaun, van Aarde, Rudi J, Mitchell, Duncan, Fuller, Andrea
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5066386/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27757237
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/cow044

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5066386/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27757237
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/conphys/cow044

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