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Torpor on Demand: Heterothermy in the Non-Lemur Primate Galago moholi

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Metabolic rate and skin temperature of a sub adult female G.moholi including a torpor bout.

Skin temperature (Tskin) started dropping below 30°C in the morning at 5:30am; Metabolic rate () started decreasing earlier at 4am. The female was torpid for about six hours. Grey area illustrates , black line shows Tskin, dotted line indicates the period of artificial variations in Tskin measurements due to movements of the animal, dashed line shows ambient temperature in the laboratory room (Ta); black bar indicates the dark phase, white bars indicate the daytime.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010797.g002