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...sustained hyperthermia. This facility must be of enormous advantage to desert species when heat storage is used to minimise the physiological consequences of water shortage. Large birds such as the ostrich allow their body temperature to rise when short of water and exposed to high T a. In fact both desert and non-desert species of bird can tolerate T b of 32–44°C, and...

...sustain residency on average for only seven months! Infanticide is also seen in multimale-multifemale groups when new males join. Although new males are not readily accepted (recall the difficulties faced by a new male baboon trying to join a baboon troop in the TV programme from 40.26-41.20), take-overs occur sufficiently often for females to have evolved