glen e. p. ropella wrote circa 11-10-24 11:11 AM:
Scaling, why is animal size so important?
By Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
I checked out a copy of this one, and in Chapter 11, we find these gems:
The rate of oxygen consumption in mammals, relative to body size,
decreases with increasing body size.
Marcus G. Daniels wrote circa 11-10-23 01:16 PM:
On 10/23/2011 1:48 PM, Edward Angel wrote:
On the face of it, it's pretty absurd. If a human has an average heart
rate of 70 beats per second and an average lifetime that is 10 times
that of a dog, the dog's average heart rate would be 700
On the face of it, it's pretty absurd. If a human has an average heart rate of
70 beats per second and an average lifetime that is 10 times that of a dog, the
dog's average heart rate would be 700 beats/sec. Don't think so.
Ed
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Ed Angel
Chair, Board of Directors, Santa Fe Complex
On 10/23/2011 1:48 PM, Edward Angel wrote:
On the face of it, it's pretty absurd. If a human has an average heart
rate of 70 beats per second and an average lifetime that is 10 times
that of a dog, the dog's average heart rate would be 700 beats/sec.
Don't think so.
And it is inverted within
It is approximately invariant. See for example Joseph Bronizino's The
Biomedical Engineering Handbook: biomedical engineering fundamentals,
section 17.4 Comparative Analysis of the Mammalian Circulatory System
—R
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