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A Counter-Current Heat Exchange System in the Tail of the Vervet Monkey, Cercopithecus Pygerythrus (Primata : Cercopithecidae)

Published in: Zoologica Africana
Volume 12 , issue 2, pages: 485–495

DOI: 10.1080/00445096.1977.11447593

Author(s): P G WrightDepartment of General Physiology, ,

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Abstract

Lightly anaesthetized vervet monkeys can maintain their body core-temperature by skin vasoconstriction and shivering when the environmental temperature is moderately lowered.

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A Counter-Current Heat Exchange System in the Tail of the Vervet Monkey, Cercopithecus Pygerythrus (Primata : Cercopithecidae)

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