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Oxygen Consumption, Evaporative Water Loss, and Body Temperature in the Sooty Tern

✍ Scribed by Richard E. MacMillen, G. Causey Whittow, Ernest A. Christopher and Roy J. Ebisu

Book ID
124630958
Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1977
Tongue
English
Weight
292 KB
Volume
94
Category
Article
ISSN
0004-8038

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## Abstract The carpenter bee __Xylocopa capitata__ has a high wing loading (425 mg cm^βˆ’2^ in females with empty crops) and exhibits a very high mass‐specific oxygen consumption during flight (mean for free flight 52.3 ml O~2~ gm^βˆ’1^ hour^βˆ’1^). Evaporative water loss is also high during flight (26.