Small Tropical Mammals Can Take the Heat: High Upper Limits of Thermoneutrality in a Bornean Treeshrew

• Published in: Physiological and biochemical zoology Vol. 93; no. 3; pp. 199 - 209
• Main Authors: Thonis, Anna, Ceballos, Ruben Michael, Tuen, Andrew Alek, Lovegrove, Barry G., Levesque, Danielle L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States The University of Chicago Press 01.05.2020
• Subjects: Animals; Body Size; Body Temperature Regulation - physiology; Borneo; Energy Metabolism; Female; Malaysia; Male; Tupaia - physiology; Water - metabolism; Borneo; Malaysia; thermoneutral zone; Scandentia; endothermy; tropics; metabolism; Tupaia minor; thermoregulation; treeshrew

Tropical ectotherms are generally believed to be more vulnerable to global heating than temperate species. Currently, however, we have insufficient knowledge of the thermoregulatory physiology of equatorial tropical mammals, particularly of small diurnal mammals, to enable similar predictions. In th...