The furry and spiky pointy-beaked critters perform some out-of-the-ordinary behaviours to avoid overheating, researchers from Curtin University find.
abc.net.au/news/echidnas-blow-snot-bubbles-to-stay-cool-researchers-find/101867530In the blistering Australian heat, a certain spiky critter performs some out-of-the-ordinary behaviours to avoid overheating.Researchers from Curtin University used thermal vision of wild echidnas to find out how they exchange heat
"Echidnas can't pant, sweat or lick to lose heat, so they could be impacted by increasing temperature," Dr Cooper says. Dr Cooper says it’s important to understand how echidnas tolerate heat, as the world’s climate warms. "And that raises the question of how do they deal with these higher temperatures when they don't pant or lick or sweat," she says.Dr Cooper says echidnas blow mucus bubbles out of their nose which burst and wet the tip of their snout.
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