THE METABOLIC RATES AND BODY TEMPERATURES OF BATS

摘要: 1. Oxygen consumption was measured in resting little brown bats, Myotis l. lucifugus, at ambient temperatures from 0.5° to 44.0° C. Body temperature shown approximate the level under conditions of experiments, so that effect metabolic rate over very nearly this range body temperatures.2. The function relating oxygen is not linear; Q10 2.94 2° 10° C., 5.54 20° 5.09 30° 1.69 37° and 2.22 41.5° ratio between highest lowest rates 138:1; represented are C.3. Some notes on reaction close 0° included. Bats increased metabolism observed when exposed near-freezing temperatures. experiment continued long enough find whether or they would eventually awake.4. data compared with findings other investigators using seve...