Winter diets? The secret is to chill the extremities
Friday, December 16, 2011 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
It is well known that large mammals living in temperate climates lower their metabolism in winter. But does this represent a mechanism for coping with less food or is it merely a consequence of having less to eat? For the red deer, the puzzle has been solved by the group of Walter Arnold at the Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna. The results are published in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
