... preference in thermal preference experimental design reveals no significant effect of length of acclimation time and trial length on thermal preference of juvenile lake whitefish. Behavioral thermoregulation Conservation physiology Ecophysiology Behavioral choice assay Aquatic organisms...

... to aid in prey acquisition, but recent findings demonstrated that western diamondback rattlesnakes ( Crotalus atrox ) use them to direct behavioral thermoregulation, suggesting that facial pits might be general purpose organs used to drive a suite of behaviors. To investigate this further, we conducted...

... al., 1999 ), and consequently the experiments were designed to exploit innate responses. We encouraged active behavioral thermoregulation in our study animals by subjecting them to a high, but sublethal, heat stress and providing a thermal refuge that they had to identify from a distance. Different...

...-mail: branco@forp.usp.br ) 5 8 2002 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2002 2002 behavioral thermoregulation amphibian Bufo paracnemis thermoregulatory set point The preoptic area (POA) is a region at the junction of the telencephalon and diencephalon of the vertebrate brain...