Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1973 - Natural history |
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Page 102
... territories occurring in various biotopes and habitats have been placed under the type in which a given territory has most of its area . Such territories embracing different biotopes or habitats were considerably larger than most of ...
... territories occurring in various biotopes and habitats have been placed under the type in which a given territory has most of its area . Such territories embracing different biotopes or habitats were considerably larger than most of ...
Page 104
... territories were surrounded by female territories more than they bordered on those of other males . Female territories were smaller than those of males . Juveniles had no territories of any discernible sort . They always slept on an ...
... territories were surrounded by female territories more than they bordered on those of other males . Female territories were smaller than those of males . Juveniles had no territories of any discernible sort . They always slept on an ...
Page 145
... territories . Female territories and territories limited to one biotope or habitat were the smallest . Male territories increased in area during courting and those of females enlarged during egg - laying . Juveniles occupied a small ...
... territories . Female territories and territories limited to one biotope or habitat were the smallest . Male territories increased in area during courting and those of females enlarged during egg - laying . Juveniles occupied a small ...
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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