energetics -metabolic rate and body size

which gram of tissue would use the most energy per day? why?

Shrew. Bc as body size increasing the amount of energy required to maintain each gram of tissue decreases.

as animals get… they start using less energy per unit of their body mass. This is described by the mass specific body rate.

larger

calculate mass specific metabolic ?

metabolic rate for the whole animal (kcals/day or other units) and then divide by the body mass of the animal (kg).

mass specific metabolic rate: metabolic rate per gram of…

body mass

you can tell a graph is mass specific bc

there is a unit of mass in the denominator of the y axis

the larger an animal the less … it takes to run that animal.

energy per gram

what would this graph look like? Is it mass specific?