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WHITE-FOOTED mice have frequently been reported to be heterotherms or incipient hibernators with variable body temperatures1–3 and two species have been found in a state of torpor in outdoor nest boxes in winter4. In a systematic study of Peromyscus eremicus, daily torpor was interpreted as a summer phenomenon occurring at moderate ambient temperatures in response to aridity5.
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MORHARDT, J., HUDSON, J. Daily Torpor induced in White-footed Mice (Peromyscus spp.) by Starvation. Nature 212, 1046–1047 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2121046b0
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