- Getting to the core: Internal body temperatures help reveal the ecological function and thermal implications of the lions' mane.
Getting to the core: Internal body temperatures help reveal the ecological function and thermal implications of the lions' mane.
Ecology and evolution (2017-01-11)
Paul Trethowan, Andrea Fuller, Anna Haw, Tom Hart, Andrew Markham, Andrew Loveridge, Robyn Hetem, Byron du Preez, David W Macdonald
PMID28070288
ABSTRACT
It has been proposed that there is a thermal cost of the mane to male lions, potentially leading to increased body surface temperatures (
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