Green, Stuart R.; Al-Attar, Rasha; McKechnie, Andrew E.; Naidoo, Samantha; Storey, Kenneth B.(Wiley, 2022-04)
Torpor is a heterothermic response that occurs in some animals to reduce metabolic expenditure. The speckled mousebird (Colius striatus) belongs to one of the few avian taxa possessing the capacity for pronounced torpor, ...
Green, Stuart R.; Al-Attar, Rasha; McKechnie, Andrew E.; Naidoo, Samantha; Storey, Kenneth B.(Elsevier, 2020-11)
Pronounced heterothermic responses are relatively rare among birds. Along with taxa such as hummingbirds and caprimulgids, the order Coliiformes (mousebirds) is known to possess the physiological capacity for torpor. During ...
