Animals Were Trained to Exercise at Various Speeds on a Treadmill Within A Plexiglass Metabolic Cham (IMAGE)

University of Chicago Medical Center

Animals Were Trained to Exercise at Various Speeds on a Treadmill Within A Plexiglass Metabolic Cham

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Each animal ran in the metabolic chamber two to five times a day. From these metrics it was possible to determine the energetic costs of running at a particular speed.

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Caleb Bryce from the Botswana Predator Conservation Trust

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