Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1973 - Natural history |
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... taken from this dehydrated group in haematocrit capillary tubes and centrifuged on a clinical centrifuge at 2 500 rpm for thirty minutes . A second blood sample , taken in polyethylene microtest tubes , was centrifuged at 10 000 rpm for ...
... taken from this dehydrated group in haematocrit capillary tubes and centrifuged on a clinical centrifuge at 2 500 rpm for thirty minutes . A second blood sample , taken in polyethylene microtest tubes , was centrifuged at 10 000 rpm for ...
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... taken from other insect orders . For example , females ate mostly dipterans ( 97,2 % , mainly muscids ) in June , and the least ( 2 % ) in October , whereas males ate only dipterans in February , and the least ( 50 % , almost equivalent ...
... taken from other insect orders . For example , females ate mostly dipterans ( 97,2 % , mainly muscids ) in June , and the least ( 2 % ) in October , whereas males ate only dipterans in February , and the least ( 50 % , almost equivalent ...
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... taken in during the day and up to 12 hours for meals taken before retirement and digested overnight . In Chamaeleo pumilus ( 3364 ; 986 ) there were seasonal and apparently sexual variations in diet . Dipterans were the main prey item ...
... taken in during the day and up to 12 hours for meals taken before retirement and digested overnight . In Chamaeleo pumilus ( 3364 ; 986 ) there were seasonal and apparently sexual variations in diet . Dipterans were the main prey item ...
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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