ArticleDie Naturwissenschaften2019
Frequent nocturnal torpor in a free-ranging Australian honeyeater, the noisy miner.
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- Discovering a low-dimensional temperature control architecture across animals.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Biophysical models accurately characterize the thermal energetics of a small invasive passerine bird.iScience · 2023Article
- Cool birds: first evidence of energy-saving nocturnal torpor in free-living common swiftsBiology letters · 2022Article
- Seasonal Expression of Avian and Mammalian Daily Torpor and Hibernation: Not a Simple Summer-Winter AffairFrontiers in physiology · 2020Review
- Torpor use in response to predation risk in a small, free-living bird.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Torpor in birds is considered to be far less common than in mammals. This is particularly true for passerine birds for which knowledge of torpor expression is scarce, although almost all are small, have high energy expenditure and could profit energetically from using torpor. To assess whether the extent and diversity of avian and especially passerine torpor expression and heterothermy may be currently underestimated because of limited long-term data on free-ranging birds, core body temperature fluctuations were quantified over ~ 4.3 months in a medium-sized honeyeater, the noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala, ~ 75 g), in an open woodland during the cold season in eastern Australia. Miners used shallow nocturnal torpor frequently (63% of days), torpor bouts lasted on average for 6.5 h (maximum 13.5 h) and, unlike during hypothermia, torpor was terminated by endogenous heat production for rewarming. Body temperatures (T
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