Closing in on the Kill: Heat and the Breadth of Land Animal Vulnerabiliity Including People, Bison, Grizzlies, and Moose

Bison in Grand Teton National Park. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.

While this article will be nowhere near a comprehensive review, a sampling of just three studies offers an introductory glimpse into heat’s broad capacity to govern and regulate behavior, health and death across the realm of Earth’s land animals. Some further detail will surface in subsequent paragraphs.

For a first example of heat’s broad impacts across animal species, the October 13 2008 issue of Science published an informative review article under the title...