Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1973 - Natural history |
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... heat loss , and concentrates initial warming on the mid- dorsum . Heating is exaggerated on the lungs of both ... heat load than when in the opposite position . Greatest heat load is when the lizard presents itself broadside to the sun ...
... heat loss , and concentrates initial warming on the mid- dorsum . Heating is exaggerated on the lungs of both ... heat load than when in the opposite position . Greatest heat load is when the lizard presents itself broadside to the sun ...
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... heat through toleration of high anoxia in the posterior trunk . ( See Gordon , Bartholomew , Grinnell , Jorgensen & White ( 1968 ) and Tucker ( 1967 ) for a discussion of reptile circulation , respiration and temperature control centres ...
... heat through toleration of high anoxia in the posterior trunk . ( See Gordon , Bartholomew , Grinnell , Jorgensen & White ( 1968 ) and Tucker ( 1967 ) for a discussion of reptile circulation , respiration and temperature control centres ...
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... heat in hot environments . 11. Oxygen consumption Table 16 shows oxygen consumption , breathing rate , and Q10 for Chamaeleo pumilus and C. namaquensis at rest and activity . Peak oxygen consumption was at 25 C for C. pumilus and at 35 ...
... heat in hot environments . 11. Oxygen consumption Table 16 shows oxygen consumption , breathing rate , and Q10 for Chamaeleo pumilus and C. namaquensis at rest and activity . Peak oxygen consumption was at 25 C for C. pumilus and at 35 ...
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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