ANNUAL CYCLE OF CARBOHYDRATES AND LIPIDS IN A VARANID OF SENEGAL

  • 1 January 1975
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 169  (4) , 1084-1089
Abstract
Lipid and carbohydrate storage depots and, blood lipids and glucose were measured every month in Varanus exanthematicus exanthematicus. The annual cycle of this animal is correlated to the characteristic succession of one dry and one wet season in the Sahel area. The large cyclic variations of these figures are discussed as a function of the animal behavior and what is known about its endocrine cycle.