• DOI:10.1086/515856
Corpus ID: 28941913

Laboratory Metabolism and Evaporative Water Loss of the Aardwolf, Proteles cristatus

@article{Anderson1997LaboratoryMA,
  title={Laboratory Metabolism and Evaporative Water Loss of the Aardwolf, Proteles cristatus},
  author={M. D. Anderson and P. Richardson and J. Williams},
  journal={Physiological Zoology},
  year={1997},
  volume={70},
  pages={464 - 469}
}

M. D. Anderson, P. Richardson, J. Williams

Published 1997

Chemistry, Medicine

Physiological Zoology

We examined oxygen consumption and total evaporative water loss of aardwolves (Proteles cristatus) at temperatures within and below their thermal neutral zone during both summer and winter. During summer (December), body masses of aardwolves averaged 8.1 ± 0.7 kg (± 1 standard deviation). Within their thermal neutral zone, oxygen consumption was 2,194 ± 443 mL O2 h−1, or 1,058 kJ d−1. The relationship between oxygen consumption (VO2, mL O2 hT1) and ambient temperature (Ta, °C) below the lower… CONTINUE READING

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