Exceptionally low daily energy expenditure in the bamboo-eating giant panda-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Exceptionally low daily energy expenditure in the bamboo-eating giant panda

Published:2015-07-10 Issue:6244 Volume:349 Page:171-174
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Nie Yonggang¹,Speakman John R.²³,Wu Qi¹,Zhang Chenglin⁴,Hu Yibo¹,Xia Maohua⁴,Yan Li¹,Hambly Catherine³,Wang Lu²,Wei Wei¹,Zhang Jinguo⁴,Wei Fuwen¹

Affiliation:

1. Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

2. State Key Laboratory of Molecular Developmental Biology, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

3. Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.

4. Beijing Key Laboratory of Captive Wildlife Technologies, Beijing Zoo, Beijing, China.

Abstract

Laid-back bamboo eater Pandas are members of the order Carnivora but are entirely herbivorous, living almost exclusively on bamboo. Unlike most other herbivorous species, however, their digestive tract has not evolved the long twists and turns that facilitate the slower digestion necessary for cellulose-rich plants. Nie et al. measured energy expenditure in both wild and captive pandas, which was extremely low, relative to other mammals. The pandas' thyroid hormone levels are also a fraction of the mammalian norm. Science , this issue p. 171

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

NSFC

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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