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Excerpt from The University of Kansas Science Bulletin, Vol. 43: Devoted to Publication of the Results of Research by Members of the University of Kansas
Terrestrial poikilotherms at temperate latitudes necessarily are adapted to much wider fluctuations in external conditions than are aquatic poikilotherms. Therefore, various phases of nor mal behavior in reptiles and amphibians are not evoked under uniform laboratory conditions; lizards that regulate temperatures of their bodies by behavioral mechanisms are especially affected by laboratory conditions. Studies in the laboratory, of behavior of lizards that practice thermo-regulation are inconclusive as con cerns natural existence unless conditions of the normal habitat are duplicated or unless the study is accompanied by field observa tions. My study emphasized behavior of racerunners in the Wild, although detailed observations and experiments were made upon captives kept under conditions similar to those of the natural habitat.
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