User:Amidou1/Coke's hartebeest

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Adaptations

The intense solar radiation in the hot and dry environment of the Cokes Hartebeest has allowed the species to develop thermoregulatory adaptations. This species uses panting as a means of evaporative cooling that responds to the skin temperature rather than body temperature. Cutaneous water loss is also limited to enable lower basal metabolic rate in these desert environments. The Hartebeest water economy is aided by their fasting metabolic rate (fasting to increase metabolic rate) and their low water turn over amount of 9-17 liters/kg. per day.