Heat dissipation
- Exposure to artificial wind increases energy intake and reproductive performance of female Swiss mice (Mus musculus) in hot temperatures
Summary: These findings suggest that exposure to wind considerably improves reproductive performance, increasing the fitness of small mammals in hot temperatures during heatwaves.
- Experimental facilitation of heat loss affects work rate and innate immune function in a breeding passerine bird
Summary: Facilitation of heat loss in blue tits allows increased female investment in innate immune function (self-maintenance) without compromising current reproduction.
- Not that hot after all: no limits to heat dissipation in lactating mice selected for high or low BMR
Summary: Neither high nor low BMR mice benefitted from increasing their thermal conductivity at peak lactation, which does not support the heat dissipation limitation hypothesis.
- Avian thermoregulation in the heat: phylogenetic variation among avian orders in evaporative cooling capacity and heat tolerance
Summary: Avian evaporative cooling efficiency and heat tolerance display substantial taxonomic variation that are, unexpectedly, not systematically related to the use of panting versus gular flutter processes.