1. The effects of meal size (% of snake body mass, A) and body temperature (B) on the postprandial profile of VO2 (ml h–1) for juvenile Burmese pythons.
The effects of meal size (% of snake body mass, A) and body temperature (B) on the postprandial profile of VO2 (ml h–1) for juvenile Burmese pythons. Increasing meal size generates a more elevated and prolonged metabolic response. With an increase in body temperature, the metabolic profile becomes narrower and higher. A and B redrawn from data presented in Secor and Diamond, and Wang et al., respectively (Secor and Diamond, 1997b; Wang et al., 2003).
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