Endothermy During Terrestrial Activity in Large Beetles
- 4 March 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 195 (4281), 882-883
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.841312
Abstract
The large tropical American beetles Strategus aloeus (Scarabaeidae) and Stenodontes molarium (Cerambycidae) can endogenously maintain metathoracic temperatures 5 degrees to 7 degrees C or more above ambient temperature for many hours. During such periods, their activity is exclusively terrestrial and their oxygen consumption equals that of active mammals of the same size. Before and during flight they elevate metathoracic temperatures by an additional 8 degrees to 10 degrees C.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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