Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1973 - Natural history |
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... period , when C. pumilus body temperatures increased by 14 C in the first 15 minutes , the environmental temperature increasing only by one degree in the same period . Warmer season body temperature heating rates were as in C ...
... period , when C. pumilus body temperatures increased by 14 C in the first 15 minutes , the environmental temperature increasing only by one degree in the same period . Warmer season body temperature heating rates were as in C ...
Page 136
... period for C. dilepis . The gestation period of C. namaquensis is closest to C. chamaeleon zeylanicus ( Trench 1912 ) and C. chamaeleon ( Bons & Bons 1960 ) of reported oviparous chamaeleons , and to some iguanids ( Burrage 1966 ) . 11 ...
... period for C. dilepis . The gestation period of C. namaquensis is closest to C. chamaeleon zeylanicus ( Trench 1912 ) and C. chamaeleon ( Bons & Bons 1960 ) of reported oviparous chamaeleons , and to some iguanids ( Burrage 1966 ) . 11 ...
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... period was 98,4 days . The length of the incubation period is apparently related to the tempera- tures at the depth at which the eggs were laid . The overall incubation increment of C. namaquensis eggs was : length 14-40 % ( x = 19,8 ...
... period was 98,4 days . The length of the incubation period is apparently related to the tempera- tures at the depth at which the eggs were laid . The overall incubation increment of C. namaquensis eggs was : length 14-40 % ( x = 19,8 ...
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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