Can External Radiotransmitters be used to Assess Body Temperature and Torpor in Bats?
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Matina C. Kalcounis-Rüppell, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: We tested externally applied, temperature-sensitive, radiotransmitters for determining the
body temperature of big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) in various ambient temperatures (2-
260C). There was a slight, but significant, effect of ambient temperature on skin temperature
(measured by the transmitters), but skin temperature accurately reflected rectal temperature in torpid and active bats, and it was never >3.30C below rectal temperature. External
radiotransmitters are, thus, useful in studies of torpor in bats, even when only small decreases
in body temperature occur.
Can External Radiotransmitters be used to Assess Body Temperature and Torpor in Bats?
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Journal of Mammalogy, 77(4): 1102-1106, 1996
- Language: English
- Date: 1996
- Keywords
- Eptesicus fuscus, bats, heterothermy, body temperature, radiotelemetry, torpor