Table 1.

Rectal/core temperatures (in degrees Celsius) of animals/species and their proclivity to SARS-CoV-2 Infection

Animal	Mean temperature	Source
Suspected hosts
Chinese pangolin	33.4–35.5	Heath 1986 [8]
South East Asian bats	37.1	Hu 2011 [9]
Golden hamster	36.1	Eberli 2011 [10], Sia 2020 [11]
Permissive hosts
Masked palm civets (Paguma larvata)	36.9	Wu 2005 [12]
Humans	37
Cats	37.8	Levy 2015 [13]
European mink	36.2–38.4	Youngman 1990 [14]
Intermediate host
Ferret	38.2–38.8	Maxwell 2016 [15]
Beagle dogs	39.1	Refinetti 2003 [16]
Resistant host
Large white pigs	39.3–39.8	Reneaudeau 2007 [17] Reneaudeau 2010 [18] Heldmaier 1974 [19]
Ducks	40.0–41.2	Smith 1976 [20] Artoni 1989 [21] Marais 2011 [22]
White leghorn chickens	41.6–41.9	Hu 2019 [[23], [24]]