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... warming / cooling in the field Chamaeleo pumilus and C. namaquensis thermoregulation is a complexly integrated process , involving dermal colour lability with attendant vasomotor and other cardiovascular adjustments , body posturing ...
... warming / cooling in the field Chamaeleo pumilus and C. namaquensis thermoregulation is a complexly integrated process , involving dermal colour lability with attendant vasomotor and other cardiovascular adjustments , body posturing ...
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... warmer season was somewhat faster , but the environmental temperatures were also higher . Table 8 Efficiency of initial warming over the sixty minute period after sunrise ( cool season only ) , in Chamaeleo pumilus ( Cp ) and C ...
... warmer season was somewhat faster , but the environmental temperatures were also higher . Table 8 Efficiency of initial warming over the sixty minute period after sunrise ( cool season only ) , in Chamaeleo pumilus ( Cp ) and C ...
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... warming , with a well - oxygenated blood supply to the brain and major sense organs via the right systemic arch . When warming is completed the increase of pulmonary resistance would invoke a proper double circulation . Increase of this ...
... warming , with a well - oxygenated blood supply to the brain and major sense organs via the right systemic arch . When warming is completed the increase of pulmonary resistance would invoke a proper double circulation . Increase of this ...
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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