word "urohidrosis" was coined by M. P. Kahl in 1963: ...Because of its apparent functional similarity to true sweating, I suggest the term urohidrosis (Greek:...

legs are yellowish to red but often appear white due their habit of urohidrosis or defecating on their legs especially when at rest. The short tail is...

surface area, fluttering their throat or using special behaviours like urohidrosis to cool themselves. Ninety-five per cent of bird species are socially...

other New World vultures, the Andean condor has the unusual habit of urohidrosis: it often empties its cloaca onto its legs and feet. A cooling effect...

its body around to aim at a leg that is bent backward (this is called urohidrosis). Which leg is aimed at is alternated. The excrement aimed at the legs...

AZA-accredited facility. Their lifespan in the wild is unknown. This vulture uses urohidrosis, defecating on its legs, to lower its body temperature. Despite its bill...

appear white. The resulting evaporation provides cooling and is termed urohidrosis. Birds that have been ringed can sometimes be affected by the accumulation...

lack eyelashes altogether. New World vultures have the unusual habit of urohidrosis, or defecating on their legs to cool them evaporatively. As this behavior...

the water in the feces and/or urine to cool itself, a process known as urohidrosis. It cools the blood vessels in the unfeathered tarsi and feet, and causes...

can spend hours a day preening their feathers. Condors also perform urohidrosis, or defecate on their legs, to reduce their body temperature. There is...

their legs covered with their droppings and this behaviour termed as urohidrosis is believed to aid in cooling during hot weather. Adults may also spread...

beak is thick, rounded, and hooked at the tip. Because of its habit of urohidrosis, the scaly portions of its legs are often streaked white with uric acid...

the water in the feces and/or urine to cool itself, a process known as urohidrosis. It cools the blood vessels in the unfeathered tarsi and feet, and causes...

yellow-headed vulture, like other New World vultures, has the unusual habit of urohidrosis, in which it urinates or defecates on its legs to cool them by evaporation...

African openbill stork will sometimes excrete on its. This is known as “urohidrosis” and serves for thermoregulatory purposes. Few social interactions are...

published his research of how storks lowered their body temperature with urohidrosis. That year, Kahl conducted an experiment with L. J. Peacock to determine...