Metabolic Adaptation to Climate
and Distribution of the Raccoon
_Procyon lotor_ and Other Procyonidae
_John N. Mugaas, John Seidensticker,
and Kathleen P. Mahlke-Johnson_
_John N. Mugaas, Department of Physiology, Division of Functional
Biology, West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Lewisburg,
West Virginia 24901. John Seidensticker and Kathleen P.
Mahlke-Johnson, National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C. 20008._
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