A New Function for Torpor: Fat Conservation in a Wild Migrant Hummingbird
- 1 May 1988
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Ornithological Applications
- Vol. 90 (2), 373-378
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1368565
Abstract
Laboratory studies of torpor in small endotherms suggest that body temperature is lowered periodically only when the animal is energetically stressed. Almost no...Keywords
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