Comparative physiology of Australian echidnas (Tachyglossus aculeatus)
The short-beaked echidna has a combination of ancestral and derived physiological traits. Its physiology is less primitive than previously thought, with many aspects being typically mammalian, including a previously unrecognised capacity for evaporative heat loss. Echidnas have considerable metaboli...
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Curtin University
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/59649 |