|
| |
|
|
|
|
||||
| Home Help Feedback Subscriptions Archive Search Table of Contents | ||||
|
Fig. 5. Energy expended by albatrosses to heat cold meals exceeds the actual
heating demand. Here the measured energy expense (
) for Diomedea
and Thalassarche albatrosses in warming meals from 0°C to
Tb is compared with energy estimates for this demand
(
) and for warming food from 20°C (
measured expense, 
estimated expense). The differences are attributable to an inherent delay in
lowering MR after thermal equilibration of body and meal temperatures has
occurred.
|
