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| Title: |
Feeding and metabolic rate in octopus |
| Author: |
Wells, M. J. O'Dor, R. K. Mangold, K. Wells, J. |
| Appeared in: |
Marine & freshwater behaviour & physiology |
| Paging: | Volume 9 (1983) nr. 4 pages 305-317 |
| Year: |
1983-07 |
| Contents: |
Feeding raises the metabolic rate of Octopus vulgaris. The increase in oxygen consumption has two distinct components. There is a progressive increase in routine uptake over the first three or four days of feeding following a period of starvation, which can end by doubling or trebling the standard metabolic rate; the effect is most marked in small animals. Superimposed on this rise in baseline there is a short-term rise and fall, with a timescale of 6 hours or so, following each meal. The short-term cost of assimilating crab flesh is in the region of 9 ml O2 g-1. Taken togeather and compared with the standard rate, and the cost of locomotion in search of prey, the short and long-term increases that follow feeding mean that feeding state is overwhelmingly the most important determinant of the daily energy requirement of Octopus. |
| Publisher: |
Taylor & Francis |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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