Laboratory metabolism and evaporative water loss of the aardwolf, Proteles cristatus.

摘要: ABSTRACT We examined oxygen consumption and total evaporative water loss of aardwolves (Proteles cristatus) at temperatures within below their thermal neutral zone during both summer winter. During (December), body masses averaged 8.1 ± 0.7 kg (± 1 standard deviation). Within zone, was 2,194 443 mL O2 h−1, or 1,058 kJ d−1. The relationship between (VO2, hT1) ambient temperature (Ta, °C) the lower critical \documentclass{aastex} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{bm} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{pifont} \usepackage{stmaryrd} \usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{portland,xspace} \usepackage{amsmath,amsxtra} \usepackage[OT2,OT1]{fontenc} \newcommand\cyr{ \renewcommand\rmdefault{wncyr} \renewcommand\sfdefault{wncyss} \renewcommand\encodingdefault{OT2} \normalfont \selectfont} \DeclareTextFontCommand{\textcyr}{\cyr} \pagestyle{empty} \DeclareMathSi...