Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1973 - Natural history |
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Page 104
... captivity and this mediated an entirely different type of spatial occupancy in C. pumilus and C. namaquensis . Both defended favoured rest sites and C. pumilus giving birth and ovipositing C. namaquensis defended the parturition and ...
... captivity and this mediated an entirely different type of spatial occupancy in C. pumilus and C. namaquensis . Both defended favoured rest sites and C. pumilus giving birth and ovipositing C. namaquensis defended the parturition and ...
Page 114
... captivity , the eggs were laid at 100 mm total depth , provided an artificial layer of saturated sand was available . The construction of six nests in captivity for a total of 83 eggs was observed , and two nests in the field for a ...
... captivity , the eggs were laid at 100 mm total depth , provided an artificial layer of saturated sand was available . The construction of six nests in captivity for a total of 83 eggs was observed , and two nests in the field for a ...
Page 130
... captivity ( Shaw 1960 ) . C. chamaeleon zeylanicus of India lays its eggs in November ( Trench 1912 ) . Ovarian cycles of reptiles are of several types , which are not yet possible to correlate to taxonomic , geographic , or climatic ...
... captivity ( Shaw 1960 ) . C. chamaeleon zeylanicus of India lays its eggs in November ( Trench 1912 ) . Ovarian cycles of reptiles are of several types , which are not yet possible to correlate to taxonomic , geographic , or climatic ...
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active adults agamid air sacs Amphibolurus animals Anolis basiliscus behaviour bitaeniatus body compression body temperatures body weight Bourgat Burrage Bustard captivity Chamaeleo namaquensis Chamaeleo pardalis Chamaeleo pumilus chamaeleons clutches coastal colour change colour index colour lability cooling corpora lutea dark Dawson density dermal deserticulous dilepis Dipsosaurus dorsalis dune sand environmental temperatures ERSITY fat bodies February female Chamaeleo field FitzSimons 1943 Gobabeb gravel habitat haematocrit heat hohnelii hummocks iguana iguanid incubation inland June juveniles Kuiseb litter lizards lungs males Mayhew Microsaura Namib Desert observed ovarian oviducal eggs oviposition ovulated oxygen consumption parentheses pattern population prey quensis Range Mean recorded rehydrated reproductive reptiles Rhoptropus SAN DIEGO saurians Sceloporus Schmidt-Nielsen season skin species sperm Stellenbosch substrate Swakop River Table tail teeth tenebrionids territories thermal thermoregulation thermoregulatory UNIV Uta stansburiana Uta stansburiana hesperis vegetation viviparous Walvis Bay warming water loss wind young Zoond