Browsing Research Articles (Centre for Veterinary Wildlife Studies) by Subject "Orientation"

Browsing Research Articles (Centre for Veterinary Wildlife Studies) by Subject "Orientation"

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  • Body surface area and thermoregulation in giraffes 
    Mitchell, Graham; Van Sittert, Sybrand J.; Roberts, D.G. (David); Mitchell, Duncan (Elsevier, 2017-10)
    One of several hypotheses for the evolution of the shape of giraffes is that it evolved to maximize heat loss via a high surface area to mass ratio. We calculated the surface area (SA) of the head, neck, trunk and upper ...