Our new paper on the temperature dependence of regional heterothermy in ringnecked snakes was just published in the Journal of Experimental Biology! We found evidence that cloacal and head temperatures are differentially regulated, which is surprising for such a small snake. This manuscript was the result of a class research project for the Field Herpetology course at Mountain Lake Biological Station in 2023, with all of the students as coauthors. Check out the link to read the paper, and also a popular summary for the Inside JEB feature.
|
|