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Do animals exercise to keep fit?
Author(s) -
Halsey Lewis G.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of animal ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.134
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1365-2656
pISSN - 0021-8790
DOI - 10.1111/1365-2656.12488
Subject(s) - energy metabolism , energy expenditure , psychology , medicine , endocrinology
We humans know we are not physically fit unless we do extra, voluntary exercise. Yet we have never asked whether the same is true for animals. If it is, then given that energy will be spent keeping fit this raises important issues about new energetic trade‐offs, which have never been considered.