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Life on the edge: do body size and drinking dependency influence how birds deal with the heat in South Africa's most extreme desert?
Climate change-induced increases in air temperature pose a substantial risk to birds inhabiting arid environments. Terrestrial endotherms, such as birds, can respond to high temperatures by moving to cooler microsites, increasing heat dissipation behaviour and/or suppressing activity. Previous studi...
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University of Cape Town
2020
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