Body temperature relationships in the lined snake,Tropidoclonion lineatum |
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Institution: | 2. Department of Psychology, MacEwan University, Edmonton, AB, Canada;3. Neuroscience and Mental Health Institute, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada;4. Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway;1. Department of Biology, MSC 7801, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807;2. Department of Biology, P.O. Box 400328, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904;3. Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908 |
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Abstract: | - 1.1. Body temperatures of 69 adult lined snakes collected in the field were recorded along with associated air and substrate temperatures.
- 2.2. There was no difference between the mean body temperature of males and females or between gravid and non-gravid individuals.
- 3.3. Body temperatures differed significantly from either air or substrate temperatures.
- 4.4. Lined snakes appear to maintain an activity temperature range by use of selected microhabitats.
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