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THE EFFECT OF WIND‐SPEED ON HEAT PRODUCTION IN THE NEW‐BORN PIG
Author(s) -
Mount L. E.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
quarterly journal of experimental physiology and cognate medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1469-445X
pISSN - 0033-5541
DOI - 10.1113/expphysiol.1966.sp001820
Subject(s) - wind speed , zoology , atmospheric sciences , mechanics , metabolic rate , production rate , environmental science , skin temperature , meteorology , physics , materials science , biology , medicine , biomedical engineering , engineering , industrial engineering
New‐born pigs were exposed singly in a closed respiratory metabolism chamber to wind‐speeds of 5, 34, 82 and 158 cm./sec. at ambient temperatures of 20 and 30° C. A rise in wind‐speed increased the metabolic rate, but not as much as expected from a heated cylindrical model, probably due to reductions in mean skin temperature, and in effective surface area possibly due to postural change.