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400 



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500 



Figure 1. 

 The curve shows the rapid increase in evaporation of mammals with diminishing body 

 size. The curve is based on the estimated hourly evaporation of mammals of differ 

 ent body size under desert conditions as given in the last column of Table 1. 



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