… Here, we measured the 18 O/ 16 O oxygen isotope ratio of blood plasma from 13 specimens
… (four killer whales Orcinus orca, nine common bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus) to …

Determination of water balance in Orcinus orca and Tursiops truncatus using oxygen
isotopes. - MNHN - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle …

… measure resting oxygen consumption rates of ex situ killer whales and … BMR is the maintenance
operating metabolism of an … fin of wild bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus. Journal of …

… to determine whether the blood of these animals exhibits … X4) the killer whale’s hemoglobin
has a low affinity for oxygen. The … disturbed fluid balance are usually the causes of this type of …

… m −3 s 2 ) determined using morphometrics according to sex (Table 1). MR L was derived for
U … O2 uptake was estimated using the O2 model with fixed O2 uptake (model 1: A, males, D, …

… of oxygen is then used to calculate the amount of oxygen … RMR of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops
truncatus, 1164 kJ h −… or 2.93 W kg −1 ), and killer whales (Orcinus orca, 5378 kJ h −1 or …

… Paul Ponganis for our many discussions regarding heart rate analysis and for writing me a
… development of the blood oxygen store in the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). This …

… between energy allocated to maintenance, activities, growth, … 8.2 Killer whale (Orcinus orca)
resting in a metabolic hood … for determination of the fractional concentration of O2 and CO2…

… the Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Both resting … for oxygen content using a
mass flow controller and oxygen … in maintenance costs of the animals on the water surface or …

… ), dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), orca (Orcinus orca), beluga (… Among terrestrial species
in resting conditions both oxygen … At such low f, maintenance of the normal PaCO 2 would …