Temperature regulation of the little brown bat, Myotis lucifugus after acclimation at various ambient temperatures

Seasonal effects on thermoregulatory abilities of the Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat (Epomophorus wahlbergi) in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

“…Since then there have been a plethora of laboratory and field studies on thermoregulatory ability of a range of bat families from temperate, subtropical and tropical regions (Herreid and Schmidt-Nielsen, 1966;Licht and Leitner, 1967;McNab, 1969;Lyman, 1970;Wilson, 1970, 1979;Holyoak and Stones, 1971;Studier and O'Farrell, 1972;Kurta andKunz, 1988, Audet andFenton, 1988;Genoud et al, 1990;Genoud, 1993;Rodríguez-Durá n, 1995;Webb et al, 1995;Withers, 1997, 1999;Choi et al, 1998;Ochoa-Acuñ a and Kunz, 1999;Cryan and Wolf, 2003;Turbill et al, 2003;Geiser, 2004;Willis et al, 2005;Marom et al, 2006;Solick and Barclay, 2007;Wojciechowski et al, 2007;Stawski, 2010;Stawski and Geiser, 2010;Storm and Boyles, 2011). Most of these studies documented changes in bats' T b .…”