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Although many animals have special mechanisms that enable them to control their body temperatures, such as sweating, panting, and shivering, these activities involve the use of materials that may be in short supply, such as water in a desert climate. Modifications of behavior patterns, however, may be sufficient to enable an animal to survive a potential environmental stress without involving these other mechanisms. The most obvious and well-developed patterns of behavioral thermoregulation are perhaps exhibited by man, who in all but the most primitive tribes varies the amount of clothing he wears and, in the more highly developed societies, employs air conditioning systems that make him almost totally independent of the climate.
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Ingram, D.L., Mount, L.E. (1975). Behavior. In: Man and Animals in Hot Environments. Topics in Environmental Physiology and Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9368-9_7
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