Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1973 - Natural history |
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... darkness and in light , and in light followed by dark and so on sequentially . Radiant heat and light from a uni - directional source , as with the sun , was employed , except in dark conditions when just heat was used . Ten animals of ...
... darkness and in light , and in light followed by dark and so on sequentially . Radiant heat and light from a uni - directional source , as with the sun , was employed , except in dark conditions when just heat was used . Ten animals of ...
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... dark pink , light gray , sulphur yellow , or light green ; blotched or spotted pat- tern may occur * As that of Hogben ( 1924 ) ( See also Zoond & Eyre 1934 ) . 2 pale green dark pink or yellow ground , with conspicu- ous spotted ...
... dark pink , light gray , sulphur yellow , or light green ; blotched or spotted pat- tern may occur * As that of Hogben ( 1924 ) ( See also Zoond & Eyre 1934 ) . 2 pale green dark pink or yellow ground , with conspicu- ous spotted ...
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... dark ( colour index ' 5 ' ) to the sun also has thermoregulatory value in absorbing warmth . Weber ( 1881 ) first proposed that dark coloration serves chamaeleons for warmth absorption and light for cooling . At hotter times of the day ...
... dark ( colour index ' 5 ' ) to the sun also has thermoregulatory value in absorbing warmth . Weber ( 1881 ) first proposed that dark coloration serves chamaeleons for warmth absorption and light for cooling . At hotter times of the day ...
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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