... of a relatively low body temperature under extreme heat conditions. Body temperature Columbiformes Cutaneous evaporative water loss Hyperthermia Passeriformes Respiratory evaporative water loss The defense of a body temperature ( T b ) set point below environmental temperature is possible only...

... metabolic heat production on a subset of elephants ( N =7). The rate of cutaneous evaporative water loss ranged between 0.31 and 8.9 g min −1 m −2 for Asian elephants and 0.26 and 6.5 g min −1 m −2 for African elephants. Simulated thermal and water budgets using climate data from Port Elizabeth, South...

...Andrew E. McKechnie; Blair O. Wolf SUMMARY We investigated changes in the relative contributions of respiratory evaporative water loss (REWL) and cutaneous evaporative water loss (CEWL) to total evaporative water loss (TEWL) in response to short-term thermal acclimation in western white-winged...