Hibernation and daily torpor in Australian mammals
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Australia is the continent with the taxonomically most diverse mammal fauna. The approximately 300 species of Australian terrestrial mammals belong to the three extant mammalian subclasses the Monotremata (Prototheria egg-laying mammals, 2 species), Marsupialia (Metatheria pouched mammals, ~160 species), and Placentalia (Eutheria placental mammals, bats ~76 species, rodents ~65 species) (Menkhorst and Knight 2001).
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