Non-invasive Body Temperature Measurement of Wild Chimpanzees Using Fecal Temperature Decline
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Non-invasive body temperature measurement of wild chimpanzees using fecal temperature decline.
New methods are required to increase our understanding of pathologic processes in wild mammals. We developed a noninvasive field method to estimate the body temperature of wild living chimpanzees habituated to humans, based on statistically fitting temperature decline of feces after defecation. The method was established with the use of control measures of human rectal temperature and subsequen...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Wildlife Diseases
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0090-3558
DOI: 10.7589/0090-3558-45.2.542