Heat increment of feeding in the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) contributes moderately to field metabolic rate estimates
Ioulia Koliopoulou, Stacy L. DeRuiter, Jordi Altimiras, Josefin Larsson, Julietta Arenarez, David Rosen, Andreas Fahlman · 2025
Read Heat increment of feeding in the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) contributes moderately to field metabolic rate estimates by Ioulia Koliopoulou, Stacy L. DeRuiter, Jordi Altimiras, Josefin Larsson, Julietta Arenarez, David Rosen, Andreas Fahlman (2025) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-12752490.txt.
Description
Eight dolphins give the first group read of how much heat a meal costs a dolphin body in this study by Ioulia Koliopoulou and six co-authors. Meal heat, the burn of gut work post-feed, feeds into wild prey-need maths for whale kin. Breath rigs read air use pre and post set fish meals in the pool. Burn rose near thirty-seven percent post-meal, with a peak at one hour.
Rates fell back to rest bands by two hours post-feed in each case. Spread over a day, gut work ate near eight percent of base burn. That share sits in line with reads for sea lions and seals in past work. Wild food need sums can now book the dolphin meal tax.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ioulia Koliopoulou, Stacy L. DeRuiter, Jordi Altimiras, Josefin Larsson, Julietta Arenarez, David Rosen, Andreas Fahlman |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |