Can birds do it too? Evidence for convergence in evaporative water loss regulation for birds and mammals

Birds have many physiological characteristics that are convergent with mammals. In the light of recent evidence that mammals can maintain a constant insensible evaporative water loss (EWL) over a range of perturbing environmental conditions, we hypothesized that birds might also regulate insensible...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Eto, E., Withers, Philip, Cooper, Christine
Format: Journal Article
Published: The Royal Society Publishing 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/59419