..., exercise significantly lowered the preferred temperature of the frogs from 6.7 to 3.6 °C for nearly 7 h, after which they returned to their normal, unstressed preferred temperatures. Thus, a transient behavioural hypothermia in the skin-breathing, overwintering frog may be an important strategy...

...G. J. Tattersall; R. G. Boutilier ABSTRACT Many animals respond to hypoxic stress by selecting cooler environments, the so-called ‘behavioural hypothermia’ response. Amphibians overwintering in ice-covered ponds and lakes offer an ecologically relevant test of this response since they must choose...

..., behavioural hypothermia was demonstrated in the shore crab Carcinus maenas . The animals moved to a cooler environment when exposed to hypoxic conditions. A decrease in preferred temperature of the same magnitude was also found when normoxic animals were injected with an iso-osmotic lactate solution resulting...