Nesting behaviour in mammals has been investigated in a wide variety of species but to
date there has not been any scholarly review of the incidence and roles of these nests. Not …

Mammalian heterotherms, species that employ short or long periods of torpor, are found in
many different climatic regions. Although the underlying physiological mechanisms of …

Edible dormice are arboreal rodents adapted to yearly fluctuations in seed production of
European beech, a major food source for this species. In years of low beech seed …

Heterothermy is an energy‐saving strategy usually employed in response to environmental
bottlenecks, which is common in almost all mammalian orders. Within the order primates …

Objectives To describe the strategy employed by exudativorous primates during seasonal
shifts in food abundance using the Javan slow loris as a model. Males and females may …

Maintaining a high and stable body temperature as observed in most endothermic mammals
and birds is energetically costly and many heterothermic species reduce their metabolic …

Temperature, rainfall, and resource availability may vary greatly within a single year in
primate habitats. Many primate species show behavioral and physiological adaptations to …

The ability of animals to survive dramatic climates depends on their physiology, morphology
and behaviour, but is often influenced by the configuration of their habitat. Along with …

Torpor, the controlled depression of virtually all bodily function during scarce periods, was
verified in primates under free-ranging conditions less than two decades ago. The large …

Temperate living primates cope with a variety of environmental stressors, which may vary by
body mass. We studied two sympatric galagos, the thick-tailed greater galago, Otolemur …