Locomotor behaviour of tropical wolf spiders is affected by external temperature and body size, not load bearing

D Villaseñor-Amador, LVBMP de Cerqueira, Q Gómez… - Animal Behaviour, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Ectotherms in tropical highlands experience high hourly temperature
variations.•Female wolf spiders ran faster when in higher-than-average ambient …

Thermo-physiological changes and reproductive investment in a liolaemid lizard at the extreme of the slow–fast continuum

OA Stellatelli, MI Bonavita, C Victorel… - Journal of …, 2024 - journals.biologists.com
Gravid female lizards often experience reduced thermal preferences and impaired
locomotor performance. These changes have been attributed to the physical burden of the …