Rate of Cooling in a Moose (Alces alces) Carcass.

作者: Alina L. Evans , Boris Fuchs , Anne Randi Græsli , Wiebke Neumann , Fredrik Stenbacka

DOI: 10.7589/2018-05-114

关键词: Time of deathAnimal scienceAdult femaleBiologyRumen

摘要: Postmortem body temperature is used to estimate time of death in humans, but the available models are not validated for most nonhuman species. Here, we report that cooling an adult female moose (Alces alces) equipped with a rumen monitor was extremely slow, 27–28 C as late 40 h postmortem.

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