Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1973 - Natural history |
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... effect of the ocean , has conditions similar to Swakopmund airport and far less fog than at the Swakopmund lighthouse . Fog has an effect at Gobabeb , but usually burns off sooner and returns later than along the coast . Air temperature ...
... effect of the ocean , has conditions similar to Swakopmund airport and far less fog than at the Swakopmund lighthouse . Fog has an effect at Gobabeb , but usually burns off sooner and returns later than along the coast . Air temperature ...
Page 67
... effect on discouraging activity in the open . In fair , or cloudy weather C. pumilus spent the night in exposed conditions , so that the first rays of the rising sun struck them early . Thus , C. pumilus was active as early as one hour ...
... effect on discouraging activity in the open . In fair , or cloudy weather C. pumilus spent the night in exposed conditions , so that the first rays of the rising sun struck them early . Thus , C. pumilus was active as early as one hour ...
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... effect on uta emergence , but high thin fogs and no wind favour a ' greenhouse effect ' , aiding substrate heating . These emergent control factors are also noted in another iguanid , Sceloporus orcutti ( Mayhew 1962 ) , and the teiids ...
... effect on uta emergence , but high thin fogs and no wind favour a ' greenhouse effect ' , aiding substrate heating . These emergent control factors are also noted in another iguanid , Sceloporus orcutti ( Mayhew 1962 ) , and the teiids ...
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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