Basal Rate of Metabolism, Body Size, and Food Habits in the Order Carnivora

摘要: Organisms expend energy for a variety of tasks, including body maintenance, movement, resource acquisition, courtship, reproduction, and growth. Energy expenditure is greatest in species that have high costs maintenance (e.g., endotherms), activity levels (due either to extended periods or the use expensive forms locomotion, such as flight elaborate courtship rituals), means rates postnatal growth rates, parental care.