Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1973 - Natural history |
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... described as in a state of flux . Apart from whether chamaeleonids should be lumped with iguanids and agamids in the Infraorder Iguania or recognized as the separate Infraorder Rhiptoglossa , the family name has been changed several ...
... described as in a state of flux . Apart from whether chamaeleonids should be lumped with iguanids and agamids in the Infraorder Iguania or recognized as the separate Infraorder Rhiptoglossa , the family name has been changed several ...
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... described experiments . Preferred temperature tests were run for two weeks , after allowing the subjects a week to get used to the arrangement and select space preferenda . The role of the skin in mediating core temperature changes in ...
... described experiments . Preferred temperature tests were run for two weeks , after allowing the subjects a week to get used to the arrangement and select space preferenda . The role of the skin in mediating core temperature changes in ...
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... described for stomach contents . The percentage of items in stomach contents and scats was calculated by volumetric analysis . Endoparasites were also removed from the digestive tract , placed in 70 % alcohol and sent to Dr Prudhoe of ...
... described for stomach contents . The percentage of items in stomach contents and scats was calculated by volumetric analysis . Endoparasites were also removed from the digestive tract , placed in 70 % alcohol and sent to Dr Prudhoe of ...
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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