Data and code from: Controlled hyperthermia by flying-foxes in the wild: Understanding mammalian tolerance to hotter summer conditions

Extreme heat events increasingly challenge the thermoregulatory capacities of wildlife, as the frequency, intensity, and duration of these events rise under anthropogenic climate change. Biologging can reveal the physiological and behavioural responses of wild animals to natural variation in environmental conditions, but few studies have recorded thermoregulatory patterns during extreme heat events. Flying-foxes (Pteropus spp.) are convenient bioindicators of the impacts of extreme heat events on wildlife because they roost in exposed colonies in trees where population-level consequences, including mass mortalities, can be readily observed. To understand how flying-foxes regulate their body temperature (Tb) in response to extreme heat in the wild, we used implanted temperature-sensitive transmitters to record the core body temperature of 17 adult male grey-headed flying-foxes (Pteropus poliocephalus) on 142 different days across two Austral summers, including 6 days when air temperature..., We used temperature-sensitive telemetry to record the Tb of adult male grey-headed flying-foxes, Pteropus poliocephalus, while they were roosting during summer at a roost camp in Adelaide, South Australia.
We obtained weather data at 1-minute resolution, including air temperature (°C), relative humidity (%), and wind speed (km/h), by averaging between two Australian Bureau of Meteorology weather stations, located 2.9 km west (station #023000) and 1.3 km south-east (station #023090) of the roost site. Bureau of Meteorology data are not provided in this dataset submission.
, , # Data and code from: Controlled hyperthermia by flying-foxes in the wild: Understanding mammalian tolerance to hotter summer conditions

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.djh9w0w92](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.djh9w0w92)

## Description of the data and file structure

We have submitted our raw data and code for research entitled \"Controlled hyperthermia by flying-foxes in the wild: understanding mammalian tolerance to hotter summer conditions\" by Melissa J. Walker, Justin A. Welbergen, Jessica Meade, Wayne S. J. Boardman, Terry Reardon, John M. Martin, Adam McKeown, and Christopher Turbill.

Body temperature data [tb_data.csv] was collected by Walker, Turbill, Reardon, Boardman, Martin, and McKeown from grey-headed flying-foxes at a day-roosting site in Adelaide Botanic Park, South Australia. Body temperatures were derived from pulse intervals of temperature-sensitive radio transmitters implanted in each bat, with data captured manually using handheld receivers and a stopwatch, or by re...,