Physiological Response to Feeding in Little Penguins
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Physiological response to feeding in little penguins.
Specific dynamic action (SDA), the increase in metabolic rate above resting levels that accompanies the processes of digestion and assimilation of food, can form a substantial part of the daily energy budget of free-ranging animals. We measured heart rate (fH) and rate of oxygen consumption (VO2) in 12 little penguins while they digested a meal of sardines in order to determine whether they sho...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1522-2152,1537-5293
DOI: 10.1086/507660