Department of Biology
Front Page
23 August 2018, by Website Team Biologie
Photo: M. Blanco
Our new publication about hibernating/torpid primates made it to the front page of Evolutionary Anthropology!
The picture shows an torpid lemur lying in the soil to overcome the harsh environmental conditions outside during the dry season in Madagascar!
Marina B. Blanco, Kathrin H. Dausmann, Sheena L. Faherty, Anne D. Yoder (2018): Tropical heterothermy is “cool”: The expression of daily torpor and hibernation in primates in Evolutionary Anthropology.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15206505/2018/27/4