Body Temperature Series of Two Beavers

Description

Reynolds (1994) describes a small part of a study of the long-term temperature dynamics of beaver Castor canadensis in north-central Wisconsin. Body temperature was measured by telemetry every 10 minutes for four females, but data from a one period of less than a day for each of two animals is used there.

Usage

data(beavers)

Format

The beaver1 data frame has 114 rows and 4 columns on body temperature measurements at 10 minute intervals.

The beaver2 data frame has 100 rows and 4 columns on body temperature measurements at 10 minute intervals.

The variables are as follows:

day:

Day of observation (in days since the beginning of 1990), December 12–13 (beaver1) and November 3–4 (beaver2).

time:

Time of observation, in the form 0330 for 3:30am

temp:

Measured body temperature in degrees Celsius.

activ:

Indicator of activity outside the retreat.

Note

The observation at 22:20 is missing in beaver1.

Source

P. S. Reynolds (1994) Time-series analyses of beaver body temperatures. Chapter 11 of Lange, N., Ryan, L., Billard, L., Brillinger, D., Conquest, L. and Greenhouse, J. eds (1994) Case Studies in Biometry. New York: John Wiley and Sons.