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- Title
TEMPERATURE-VISCOSITY RELATIONS OF BOWHEAD WHALE BLOOD: A POSSIBLE MECHANISM FOR MAINTAINING COLD BLOOD FLOW.
- Authors
Elsner, Robert; Meiselman, Herbert J.; Baskurt, Oguz K.
- Abstract
Explores whether the temperature dependence of whale blood flow behavior might show adaptation for maintaining peripheral blood flow in these animals. Benefits of such an adaptation for the animal's temperature regulation; Apparent viscosity versus shear rate properties of bowhead whale blood over a range of temperatures known to be present in their tail thermal exchange circulation; Study conducted at the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium facility, Barrow, Alaska, during the spring subsistence whaling season.
- Subjects
UTQIAGVIK (Alaska); ALASKA; UNITED States; WHALES; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of temperature; ANIMAL behavior; BLOOD flow; HEMODYNAMICS
- Publication
Marine Mammal Science, 2004, Vol 20, Issue 2, p339
- ISSN
0824-0469
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1748-7692.2004.tb01163.x