Fig. 5. Relationship between body mass (Mb, g) and standard
metabolic rate (SMR, ml O2 h-1) for (A) euthermic and
(B) hypothermic mammals, normalised to a body temperature of 36.2°C (see
text for details): a Q10 of 2.8 was used for euthermic mammals, 2.4
for mammals in daily torpor (filled circles) and 2.2 for hibernating ones
(unfilled circles). Equations of the regression lines: euthermic mammal
SMR=4.14Mb0.675±0.013 (95% CI),
r2=0.96, N=469; torpid mammal (solid line)
SMR=4.81Mb0.67±0.1,
r2=0.86, N=30; hibernating mammal (broken line)
SMR=0.669Mb0.87±0.08,
r2=0.90, N=59. Data for euthermic mammals from
White and Seymour (2003),
data for hypothermic ones from Geiser
(1988).