Fig. 9. Oxygen consumption of caimans (N=8) for 2 days before feeding and 9 days after feeding. Feeding was around noon of day 0 as indicated by the grey bar. The plotted curves were derived by fitting data to a log normal 4 parameter model. (A) Continuous measurements over the entire experimental period. Values are means of eight individuals; each animal was assessed for 10 min during an 80-min interval. (B) Daily mean _O2 derived from data in A. Values are means ± s.d. from all measurement intervals per day for eight individuals. Different letters denote significant difference according to Tukey's HSD post-hoc test for comparisons of multiple means; <0.05. The grey shaded area under the curve represents SDA; the vertical bar indicates interruption of the continuous measurements for feeding.