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mchambers
at Sun Apr 30 13:05:29 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by mchambers ]
of reptiles getting overheated in a home/house/room unless a heater and or sunlight coming in and or no ventilation at all. My old farm house gets VERY hot in the summer with a certain sun positioning. Fans will move air around and even if reptiles are not cooled as most mammals are by cool drafts cooling down heat by moisture or taking heat/sweat away from body, they still work. Where does everyone here think that top surface reptile go in the heat of summer ? Sure they estivate but in our state of Kansas upon reaching the high 90ties and 100 degrees, they are just inches if that much under ground under these rocks out here. AND they are in a somewhat and sometimes barely moist soil. Field collecting in west Texas has had me come up with several species of lizards and snakes just sitting under foliage and cacti at OVER 100 degrees in the daytime. The same thing true of my hunting in the southeast like Florida.
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