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MARC recordAdaptations by the Arctic fox (Alopex lagopus) to the polar winter / Pål Prestrud.
| Title: | Adaptations by the Arctic fox (Alopex lagopus) to the polar winter / Pål Prestrud. |
| Author(s): | Prestrud, Pål. |
| Date: | 1991. |
| In: | Arctic. (1991.), Vol. 44(2) (1991) |
| Abstract: | Discusses physiological, behavioural and morphological adaptations to low temperatures and food scarcity in winter (stores fat and caches food items during summer and autumn). Among mammals, Arctic fox has best insulative fur of all: lower critical temperature is below -40° C. |
| Notes: | Arctic. Vol. 44(2) :132-138 (1991). |
| Keywords: | 59 -- Zoology. 591.128 -- Heat, thermoregulation. 591.13 -- Animal digestion and inanition. 591.5 -- Animal behaviour. 591.543.1 -- Animals, influence of temperature. 536.48 -- Low temperature phenomena in living things. 599.742.1 -- Canidae: Alopex lagopus. H6 -- Zoology: mammals. (*3) -- Arctic regions. |
| SPRI record no.: | 110386 |
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