Body temperature and activity patterns of free-living laughing kookaburras: the largest kingfisher is heterothermic.

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Body temperature and activity patterns of free-living laughing kookaburras: the largest kingfisher is heterothermic.

We show that free-ranging Laughing Kookaburras (Dacelo novaeguineae), the largest kingfishers, are heterothermic. Their minimum recorded body temperature (Tb) was 28.6°C, and the maximum daily Tb range was 9.1°C, which makes kookaburras only the second coraciiform species and the only member of the...

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Main Authors:	Cooper, Christine, Kortner, G., Brigham, M., Geiser, F.
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	The Cooper Ornithological Society 2008
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/46212

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