Metabolism and Respiration of the Amazonian Manatee (Trichechus inunguis)
- 1 July 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in Physiological Zoology
- Vol. 53 (3) , 245-253
- https://doi.org/10.1086/physzool.53.3.30155787
Abstract
A study was made of respiration and metabolism in Amazonian manatees (Trichechus inunguis) weighing between 20 and 170 kg. These animals had a low metabolic rate, 0.36 times that predicted by Kleiber's 1975 equation for placental mammals. They also had a low breathing frequency and minute ventilation, and high O₂ extraction and CO₂ output. The mean dive times were less than 2 min but dives of up to 10 min-duration were noted. Sequential dive times exhibited a pattern only in that several short dives followed a prolonged one.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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