- Title
- Thermoregulation under seminatural conditions in two species of African barbets (Piciformes Lybiidae)
- Creator
- McKechnie, Andrew E, Smit, Ben
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/448413
- Identifier
- vital:74728
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2010.488384
- Description
- Torpor has been documented in a number of avian orders, but our understanding of the phylogenetic distribution of this phenomenon is far from complete, and several groups have yet to be investigated. We examined patterns of rest- and active-phase thermoregulation in Acacia Pied Barbets Lybius leucomelas and Crested Barbets Trachyphonus vaillantii held in outdoor aviaries, using surgically-implanted miniature data loggers to record body temperature (Tb). Both species exhibited large circadian rhythms of Tb, with maximum active-phase and minimum rest-phase Tb (ρTbmin) values of 42.3 ± 0.1 °C and 37.7 ± 0.6 °C, respectively, in Acacia Pied Barbets (n = 3) and 42.5 ± 0.4 °C and 37.0 ± 0.6 °C, respectively, in Crested Barbets (n = 5).
- Format
- 6 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Ostrich, McKechnie, A.E. and Smit, B., 2010. Thermoregulation under seminatural conditions in two species of African barbets (Piciformes: Lybiidae). Ostrich, 81(2), pp.97-102, Ostrich volume 81 number 2 97 102 2010 1727-947X
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