Postmortem body temperature is used to estimate time of death in humans, but the available models are not validated for most nonhuman species. Here, we report that cooling in an adult female moose (Alces alces) equipped with a rumen temperature monitor was extremely slow, with a rumen temperature of 27–28 C as late as 40 h postmortem.
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9 July 2019
Rate of Cooling in a Moose (Alces alces) Carcass
Alina L. Evans,
Boris Fuchs,
Anne Randi Græsli,
Wiebke Neumann,
Fredrik Stenbacka,
Navinder Singh,
Göran Ericsson,
Jonas Malmsten,
Jon M. Arnemo
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Journal of Wildlife Diseases
Vol. 55 • No. 3
July 2019
Vol. 55 • No. 3
July 2019