... (mean maximum ambient temperature=42.7°C) and cooler (mean maximum ambient temperature=31.4°C) periods during a single Austral summer. We measured body mass, metabolic rate, evaporative water loss and body temperature, along with blood parameters (corticosterone, glucose and uric acid) of wild zebra...

... of neutrophils and natural killer cell cytotoxicity (e.g. Ostberg et al., 2005 ; Sutherland et al., 2006 ; Bzowska et al., 2011 ). In addition, changes in blood parameters were similar to those observed in our previous study, in which mice from selected line types were subjected to another metabolic...