Primate Metabolic Rates

Body mass (g) and metabolic rate (watts) for 17 species of primates.

Usage

PrimateMetabolism

Format

A data frame with 17 observations on the following 2 variables.

mass

mass (g)

bmr

metabolic rate (watts)

Source

Heusner, A.A. 1991. Size and power in mammals. Journal of Experimental Biology 160: 25-54.

References

http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/content/abstract/160/1/25

Examples

str(PrimateMetabolism)
#> 'data.frame':	17 obs. of  2 variables:
#>  $ mass: num  4670 1020 206 190 105 ...
#>  $ bmr : num  11.57 2.56 0.73 0.86 0.55 ...
xyplot(bmr ~ mass, PrimateMetabolism)

xyplot(bmr ~ mass, PrimateMetabolism, scales=list(log=TRUE))