Cissé M, Demaille J
C R Seances Soc Biol Fil. 1975;169(4):1084-9.
Lipid and carbohydrate storage depots on one hand, blood lipids and glucose on the other hand, were measured every month in Varanus exanthematicus exanthematicus, the annual cycle of which is correlated to the characteristic succession of one dry and one wet season in the Sahel area. The large cyclic variations of these figures are discussed as a function of the animal behaviour and what is known about its endocrine cycle.
一方面测量了草原巨蜥体内的脂质和碳水化合物储存库，另一方面测量了其血脂和血糖，草原巨蜥的年度周期与萨赫勒地区一个旱季和一个雨季的典型交替相关。这些数据的大幅周期性变化被作为动物行为及其已知内分泌周期的函数进行了讨论。
