Increasing Winter Maximal Metabolic Rate Improves Intrawinter Survival in Small Birds

2017 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 166-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magali Petit ◽  
Sabrina Clavijo-Baquet ◽  
François Vézina

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 1194-1202
Author(s):  
Jack P. Hayes ◽  
Chris R. Feldman ◽  
Miguel B. Araújo


2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 211-212
Author(s):  
C Sivaram ◽  
K Arun ◽  
O V Kiren

AbstractWe draw attention to a curious coincidence wherein the most (steadily emitting) luminous objects in the Universe from stellar X-ray sources to ultra-luminous quasars and Ultra Luminous Infrared Galaxies, steadily emit a power per unit mass, which is just the same value as the maximal metabolic rate in (warm-blooded) bio-organisms.





2016 ◽  
Vol 187 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia J. Downs ◽  
Jessi L. Brown ◽  
Bernard W. M. Wone ◽  
Edward R. Donovan ◽  
Jack P. Hayes


2004 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 487 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christofer J. Clemente ◽  
Graham G. Thompson ◽  
Philip C. Withers ◽  
David Lloyd

Metabolic physiology, morphology, activity patterns, performance traits and movement kinematics are thought to have coevolved in lizards. We examined links between these parameters for the thorny devil (Moloch horridus), a morphologically and ecologically specialised agamid lizard (body mass ~30 g). It has a maximum sustainable metabolic rate (VO2max) of 0.99 mL O2 g–1 h–1 while running at a velocity of 0.11�m�sec–1 at 35°C. This VO2 is typical of that for other lizards (except varanids), but its burst speed (1.21�m�sec–1) is slower than for a typical agamid (e.g. Ctenophorus ornatus at 3.59 m sec–1) and its endurance is appreciably higher. The kinematic pattern of hind-limb movement for M. horridus is different to that of a 'typical' similar-sized agamid, Ctenophorus ornatus, which is a fast-moving lizard that shelters in rock crevices. It is also different to the ecologically equivalent Phrynosoma platyrhinos. The slow and erratic ventilation of M. horridus (2.3 breaths min–1) at its maximum sustainable aerobic running speed occurs when it stops running. This might be a consequence of the hypaxial muscles being used for both lung ventilation and locomotion, which might be impairing pulmonary ventilation when running, but might also contribute to its high endurance. M. horridus is metabolically typical of agamids, but its body shape, movement patterns and locomotory performance traits are different, and might have coevolved with its specialisation for eating ants.





2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Cynthia J. Downs ◽  
Jessi L. Brown ◽  
Bernard W. M. Wone ◽  
Edward R. Donovan ◽  
Jack P. Hayes


2004 ◽  
Vol 140 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewald R. Weibel ◽  
Leonardo D. Bacigalupe ◽  
Beat Schmitt ◽  
Hans Hoppeler


Author(s):  
William A. Buttemer ◽  
Vincent Careau ◽  
Mark A. Chappell ◽  
Simon C. Griffith

Evidence from a number of species suggests behaviours associated with social rank are positively correlated with metabolic rate. These studies, however, are based on metabolic measurements of isolated individuals, thereby ignoring potential effects of social interactions on metabolic rates. Here, we characterised three pertinent metabolic indices in the two predominant genetic colour morphs of the Gouldian finch (Erythrura gouldiae): diurnal resting metabolic rate (RMR), nocturnal basal metabolic rate (BMR), and exercise-induced maximal metabolic rate (MMR). Research reveals red-headed morphs consistently dominate the less aggressive black-headed morphs and the two morphs to differ in other behavioural and physiological traits. We measured daytime RMR of intermorph naïve birds (first-year virgin males maintained in total isolation from opposite colour morphs) and their metabolic responses to viewing a socially unfamiliar bird of each colour. Subsequently each bird was placed in a home cage with an opposite colour morph (intermorph exposed) and the series of measurements repeated. Daytime RMR was indistinguishable between the two morphs, whether intermorph naïve or intermorph exposed. However, both red- and black-headed birds showed a greater short-term increase in metabolic rate when viewing an unfamiliar red-headed bird than when seeing a black-headed bird, but only when intermorph naïve. Measurements of BMR and exercise-induced MMR did not differ between the two morphs, and consequently aerobic scope was indistinguishable between them. We propose that the suite of behavioural differences between these two sympatric morphs are functionally complementary and represent evolutionary stable strategies permitting establishment of dominance status in the absence of metabolic costs.



1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 116???119 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. BARCLAY ◽  
W. N. STAINSBY


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