Annals of the South African MuseumThe Museum, 1973 - Natural history |
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... usually burns off sooner and returns later than along the coast . Air temperature minimums are lower and maximums higher at Gobabeb than at Swakopmund ( Table 2 ) . Though humidities of 100 % occur , usually coinciding with fog ...
... usually burns off sooner and returns later than along the coast . Air temperature minimums are lower and maximums higher at Gobabeb than at Swakopmund ( Table 2 ) . Though humidities of 100 % occur , usually coinciding with fog ...
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... Usually only one side at colour index ' 4-5 ' was presented to the sun , the side in the shade being considerably lighter , usually at colour index ' 2 ' . Warming C. namaquensis at colour index ' 5 ' and body compression IV ' with the ...
... Usually only one side at colour index ' 4-5 ' was presented to the sun , the side in the shade being considerably lighter , usually at colour index ' 2 ' . Warming C. namaquensis at colour index ' 5 ' and body compression IV ' with the ...
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... usually green , though some have it brown , russet , or yellowish at thermal neutrality , which is essentially a con- tinuation of a juvenile colour type ( Table 48 ) . In these individuals , always females , brown predominates and ...
... usually green , though some have it brown , russet , or yellowish at thermal neutrality , which is essentially a con- tinuation of a juvenile colour type ( Table 48 ) . In these individuals , always females , brown predominates and ...
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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