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36036	Mahlke-Johnson, Kathleen P.	Metabolic Adaptation to Climate and Distribution of the Raccoon Procyon Lotor and Other Procyonidae			.txt	text/plain	25070	2096	61	Adaptation to Climate and Distribution of the Raccoon _Procyon lotor_ evaporative water loss, and body temperature of both sexes of _Procyon Metabolic adaptation to climate and distribution of the raccoon climates, the North American raccoon, _Procyon lotor_, (Figure 1) has [Illustration: FIGURE 1.--North American raccoon, _Procyon lotor_.] metabolism, evaporative water loss, and body temperature of raccoons TABLE 2.--Body mass in kg and basal metabolism seasonal difference in their basal metabolic rates (Table 2). the case for females in summer, rates of water loss for winter animals Body temperatures in Figure 6 are those recorded during metabolic The regression line for _Procyon lotor_ in winter (Table 5) Body temperature, evaporative water loss, and metabolic data indicated TABLE 7.--Metabolic characteristics of several procyonid species. In summer, T_{lc}'s of male and female _Procyon lotor_ (Figure 2) were TABLE 11.--Distribution by climate of selected procyonid species. procyonids than it does with _Procyon lotor_ (Tables 7, 11, 12; Figure	./cache/36036.txt	./txt/36036.txt