
%0 Journal Article
%A Geiser, F 
%A Körtner, G 
%A Law, BS 
%T Daily Torpor In A Pregnant Common Blossom-Bat (Syconycteris Australis: Megachiroptera)
%J Australian Mammalogy
%D 2001/01/01
%V 23
%N 1
%P 53-56
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/AM01053
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/AM01053 
%X TORPOR and reproduction in mammals are widely viewed as mutually exclusive processes. For most mammals, different energetic and hormonal demands appear to require a temporal sequence of torpor and reproduction within the yearly schedule. Torpor is characterised by a pronounced fall in body temperature and metabolic rate, which results in an overall reduction of energy expenditure (Geiser and Ruf 1995) and in most mammals occurs during the non-reproductive season (Goldman et al. 1986; Barnes 1996). Reproduction, on the other hand, requires an increase of energy expenditure for acquiring, processing and transfer of nutrients to the growing offspring (Hoffman 1964; Goldman et al. 1986; Thompson and Nicoll 1986; Kenagy et al. 1989; Barnes 1996). 
