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Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor
Animals at the extremes: hibernation and torpor

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Course image: Mike Boswell in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence.

Figure 2 Michael and Diane Porter, American Goldfinch, Ideaform Inc.;

Figure 3 Tom and Cathy Saxton, Hummingbird, Saxton.org.;

Figure 4 John Franklin, birdinfo@mirrorpole.com;

Figure 5 Art Wolfe/Science Photo Library;

Figure 6 Roger W. Barbour/Morehead State University;

Figure 7 Peter Menzel/Science Photo Library;

Figure 8 Leonard Lee Rue/Science Photo Library;

Figure 9 Roger W. Barbour/Morehead State University;

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Figure 22 Leming Shi, Ph.D., Principal Investigator at the U.S. FDA’s National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR), Jefferson, Arkansas;

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Figure 27a and b Ortmann, S. and Heldmaier, G. (2000) Regulation of body temperature and energy requirements…, American Journal of Physiology, 278. Copyright © American Physiological Society;

Figure 28 Dawn Sadler, Open University;

Figure 29 Buck, C. L. and Barnes, B. M. (2000) Effects of ambient temperature on metabolic rate…, American Journal of Physiology – Regulatory Integrative Comparative Physiology, 279. Copyright © American Physiological Society;

Figure 30 Boutilier, R. G. and St-Pierre, J. (2002) Adaptive plasticity of skeletal muscle energetics in hibernating frogs: mitochondrial proton leak during metabolic depression, Journal of Experimental Biology, 205. Copyright © Company of Biologists Ltd;

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Figure 32 Schleucher, E. (2001) Heterothermia in pigeons and doves reduces energetic costs, Journal of Thermal Biology, 26. Elsevier Science;

Figure 33 Koteja, P. et al. (2001) Energy balance of hibernating mouse-eared bat Myotis myotis… Acta Theriologica, 46. Polska Akademia Nauk, Zaklad Badania Ssakow;

Figure 34 Diana Weedman Molavi, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine;

Figure 37 Heller, H. C. (1977) Pflugers Archiv, 369, Springer Verlag GmbH & Co KFigureG;

Figure 39 Masaaki Hashimoto et al. (2002) Arousal from hibernation and BAT thermogenesis against cold…, Journal of Thermal Biology, 27. Elsevier Science;

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Figure 42 Pitrosky, B. et al. (2003) Research report – S22153, a melatonin antagonist dissociates…, Behavioural Brain Research, 138. Elsevier Science;

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