The Arabian Sand Gazelle edit
The Arabian Sand Gazelle is native to the Arabian peninsula, belonging to the Bovidae family in the Antilopini tribe.[1]It is greatly studied by researchers for its heterothermy.
Desert Adaptations edit
The sand gazelle, which is smaller in size compared to the oryx, has a thermoregulatory system that regulates at a higher set-point. It has a higher average, minimum, and maximum 24-hour body temperature.[2] However, the oryx and sand gazelle responded similarly to environmental conditions[3] even with the oryx being 4 times more the body weight of the Sand Gazelle. Animals that are small, such as the sand gazelles have ways of going into small micro-environments. The sand gazelle, during the summer, will go into cooler microhabitats. An example of this would be rock crevices, which are inaccessible to the oryx. [4]
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References edit
- ^ "Comparative Placentation". placentation.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-11.
- ^ Hetem, Robyn Sheila; Strauss, Willem Maartin; Fick, Linda Gayle; Maloney, Shane Kevin; Meyer, Leith Carl Rodney; Shobrak, Mohammed; Fuller, Andrea; Mitchell, Duncan (2012-04-01). "Does size matter? Comparison of body temperature and activity of free-living Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx) and the smaller Arabian sand gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa marica) in the Saudi desert". Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 182 (3): 437–449. doi:10.1007/s00360-011-0620-0. ISSN 1432-136X.
- ^ Hetem, Robyn Sheila; Strauss, Willem Maartin; Fick, Linda Gayle; Maloney, Shane Kevin; Meyer, Leith Carl Rodney; Shobrak, Mohammed; Fuller, Andrea; Mitchell, Duncan (2012-04-01). "Does size matter? Comparison of body temperature and activity of free-living Arabian oryx (Oryx leucoryx) and the smaller Arabian sand gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa marica) in the Saudi desert". Journal of Comparative Physiology B. 182 (3): 437–449. doi:10.1007/s00360-011-0620-0. ISSN 1432-136X.
- ^ Ostrowski, Stéphane; Williams, Joseph B. (2006-04-15). "Heterothermy of free-living Arabian sand gazelles (Gazella subgutturosa marica) in a desert environment". Journal of Experimental Biology. 209 (8): 1421–1429. doi:10.1242/jeb.02151. ISSN 0022-0949.