FISHING FOR ANSWERS

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There aren't many problems in biology that have remained unsolved for over a century. Yet one of these problems, the scaling of resting metabolic rates in animals with their body mass, has not only evaded solution but has even evaded description! The problem is simple, how does the amount of energy an animal uses at rest change with its size? The answer may seem obvious - a resting mouse uses less metabolic energy than an elephant because the mouse has a smaller body. But is there a single relationship that can describe the way metabolic rate changes with changing body mass?

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