Daily torpor in a pregnant common blossom-bat ('Syconycteris australis': Megachiroptera)

Title
Daily torpor in a pregnant common blossom-bat ('Syconycteris australis': Megachiroptera)
Publication Date
2001
Author(s)
Geiser, Fritz
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7621-5049
Email: fgeiser@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:fgeiser
Koertner, Gerhard
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8230-0709
Email: gkoertne@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:gkoertne
Law, Bradley S.
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Australian Mammal Society Inc
Place of publication
Australia
UNE publication id
une:2878
Abstract
Torpor and reproduction in mammals are widely viewed as mutually exclusive processes. For most mammals, different energetic and hormonal demands appear to require a temporal sequence of torpor and reproduction within the yearly schedule. Torpor is charecterised by a pronounced fall in body temperature and metabolic rate, which results in an overall reduction of energy expenditure (Geiser and Ruf 1995) and in most mammals occurs during the non-reproductive season (Goldman et al. 1986; Barnes 1996). Reproduction, on the other hand, requires an increase of energy expenditure for acquiring, processing and transfer of nutrients to the growing offspring (Hoffman 1964; Goldman et al. 1986; Thompson and Nicoll 1986; Kenagy et al. 1989; Barnes 1996).
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Citation
Australian Mammalogy, 23(1), p. 53-56
ISSN
1836-7402
0310-0049
Start page
53
End page
56

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