| dc.contributor.author | Kanui, Titus | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mwendia, Charles | |
| dc.contributor.author | Aulie, Arnfinn | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wanyoike, Margaret | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-12T06:39:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-06-12T06:39:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1991 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology Part A: Physiology Volume 99, Issue 3, 1991, Pages 453–456 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0300962991900328 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/31905 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 1. The body growth, food uptake and gastro-intestinal passage time were studied in juvenile Nile crocodiles kept at different temperature regimes. Group A was kept at 30°C, group B at 30 and 25°C for 12 hr each and group C at 25°C.
2. After 14 weeks, the weight of group A increased by 18%, while both group B and C lost weight (13 and 66%, respectively). During the same period, group A and B increased their body length (6.5 and 6.6%, respectively), while group C decreased in length (5.4%).
3. Group A fed at the same interval as group B, but group A ate more than the other groups.
4. The gastro-intestinal passage time was shorter in group A (35 hr) than in group B (42 hr) and C (44 hr). | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.title | Effects of temperature on growth, food uptake and retention time of juvenile nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |
| local.publisher | Department of Animal Production, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences, University of Nairobi | en |
| local.publisher | Department of Physiology and Nutrition, Norwegian College of Veterinary Medicine | en |
