Barnacle Geese Achieve Significant Energetic Savings by Changing Posture

• Published in: PLoS ONE
• Main Authors: Tickle, Peter G., Nudds, Robert L., Codd, Jonathan R.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: Tickle; Branta leucopsis
• Online Access: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/4a5fff69-0f5f-477a-bdcb-a4ffa671f091; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046950; http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObjectAttachment.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0046950&representation=PDF

Here we report the resting metabolic rate in barnacle geese (Branta leucopsis) and provide evidence for the significant energetic effect of posture. Under laboratory conditions flow-through respirometry together with synchronous recording of behaviour enabled a calculation of how metabolic rate vari...