title: Behavioral thermoregulation by turtle embryos.
abstract: Mobile ectothermic animals can control their body temperatures by selecting specific thermal conditions in the environment, but embryos--trapped within an immobile egg and lacking locomotor structures--have been assumed to lack that ability. Falsifying that assumption, our experimental studies show that even early stage turtle embryos move within the egg to exploit small-scale spatial thermal heterogeneity. Behavioral thermoregulation is not restricted to posthatching life and instead may be an important tactic in every life-history stage.
authors: Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservational Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. dwghz@126.com
authors: Wei-Guo
authors: WG
authors: Du
authors: Bo
authors: B
authors: Zhao
authors: Ye
authors: Y
authors: Chen
authors: Richard
authors: R
authors: Shine
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