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Snoozing through the storm: torpor use during a natural disaster.
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- Intraspecific variation in metabolic responses to diverse environmental conditions in the Malagasy bat Triaenops menamena.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2025Article
- Torpor use in the wild by one of the world's largest bats.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Can cyclone exposure explain behavioural and demographic variation among lemur species?PloS one · 2024Article
- Measuring body temperature in birds - the effects of sensor type and placement on estimated temperature and metabolic rate.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
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- The Use of Selfie Camera Traps to Estimate Home Range and Movement Patterns of Small Mammals in a Fragmented Landscape.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Survivable hypothermia or torpor in a wild-living rat: rare insights broaden our understanding of endothermic physiology.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2022Article
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- Responding to the weather: energy budgeting by a small mammal in the wild.Current zoology · 2020Article
- Seasonal Expression of Avian and Mammalian Daily Torpor and Hibernation: Not a Simple Summer-Winter AffairFrontiers in physiology · 2020Review
- Combinations of reproductive, individual, and weather effects best explain torpor patterns among female little brown bats (Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Short and hyperthermic torpor responses in the Malagasy bat Macronycteris commersoni reveal a broader hypometabolic scope in heterotherms.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2018Article
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Abstract
Although storms provide an extreme environmental challenge to organisms and are predicted to increase in frequency and intensity due to climate change, there are no quantitative observations on the behaviour and physiology of animals during natural disasters. We provide the first data on activity and thermal biology of a free-ranging, arboreal mammal during a storm with heavy rain and category 1 cyclone wind speeds. We studied a population of sugar gliders (Petaurus breviceps), a species vulnerable to bad weather due to their small body size and mode of locomotion, in a subtropical habitat during spring when storms are common. Although torpor is generally rare in this species, sugar gliders remained inactive or reduced foraging times during the storm and further minimized energy demands by entering deep torpor. All animals survived the storm and reverted to normal foraging activity during the following night(s). It thus appears that heterothermic mammals have a crucial adaptive advantage over homeothermic species as they can outlast challenging weather events, such as storms and floods, by reducing metabolism and thus energetic needs.
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