Hi Denny- great questions! We plan to publish the data, and make it publicly available. The scales are different because the bird on the left is in a state of torpor- it's dropped its metabolism down and allowed its body to become as cool as the outside air. The one on the right is asleep, with its body temperature kept up high. But its feathers are trapping most of that heat, so there's very few parts of the body that high temperature can show through from the skin (e.g. around its eye).
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View commentSo what happened to this experiment?!!! Does freezing the dough make it softer?
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A Mother’s Work is Never Done: Using Thermal Imaging to Detect Torpor in Nesting Hummingbirds
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