For more than 200 years, the metabolic response that accompanies meal digestion has
been characterized, theorized, and experimentally studied. Historically labeled “specific …

Temperature profoundly influences physiological responses in animals, primarily due to the
effects on biochemical reaction rates. Since physiological responses are often exemplified …

Specific dynamic action (SDA) is the term used to refer to the increased metabolic
expenditure that occurs in postprandial animals. Postprandial increases in metabolism were …

Ambient temperature (T a) is a critical abiotic factor for insects that cannot maintain a
constant body temperature (T b). Interestingly, T a varies during the day, between seasons …

With approximately 7000 species, snakes and lizards, collectively known as squamates, are
by far the most species‐rich group of reptiles. It was from reptile‐like ancestors that …

Basal or standard metabolic rate (SMR) has been found to exhibit substantial intraspecific
variation in a range of taxa, but the consequences of this variation are little understood. Here …

Infrared thermal technology allows for the real-time visualisation of fixed or transient
changes in the long-wave radiative energy emanating from an object, in essence, allowing …

Effect of relative meal size (0.6–24%) on specific dynamic action (SDA) was assessed in
southern catfish juveniles (48.2±3.2 g) at 27.5° C. Cutlets of freshly killed loach species were …

The adaptive interplay between feeding habits and digestive physiology is demonstrated by
the Burmese python, which in response to feeding infrequently has evolved the capacity to …

Many snakes are uniquely adapted to ingest large prey at infrequent intervals. Digestion of
large prey is metabolically and aerobically costly, and large prey boluses can impair snake …