Many birds and mammals drastically reduce their energy expenditure during times of cold
exposure, food shortage, or drought, by temporarily abandoning euthermia, ie the …

Bats are hosts to a range of zoonotic and potentially zoonotic pathogens. Human activities
that increase exposure to bats will likely increase the opportunity for infections to spill over in …

The last 'hibernation book'was published in 1982, nearly 40 years ago, so clearly an update
was needed. The options were a book written by a single author or an edited book written by …

Animals must balance their energy budgets even when confronted with periodic food
shortages and/or adverse environmental conditions. Especially, small endothermic animals …

The evolution of endothermy in birds and mammals was one of the most important events in
the evolution of the vertebrates. Past tests of hypotheses on the evolution of endothermy in …

Daily torpor and hibernation (multiday torpor) are the most efficient means for energy
conservation in endothermic birds and mammals and are used by many small species to …

Torpor, the most effective means of energy conservation available to endotherms, is still
widely viewed as a specific adaptation in a few high-latitude, cold-climate endotherms with …

Flexibility in physiological processes is essential to adequately respond to changes in
environmental conditions. Madagascar is a particularly challenging environment because …

Technological innovations have made heat-sensitive data-loggers smaller, more efficient
and less expensive, which has led to a growing body of literature that measures the skin-or …

Periodic arousals during hibernation consume most of the winter energy budget for
hibernating mammals. Evaporative water loss (EWL) is thought to affect the frequency of …