Body mass and food intake in captive, breeding bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus
Body mass and food intake in captive, breeding bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus
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圈养、繁殖的宽吻海豚（Tursiops truncatus）的体重和食物摄入量
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1991
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N. Gales
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A. Cheal;N. Gales
体质量（BM）在怀孕期间定期记录在四个女性印度洋短吻海豚（Tursiops truncatus）。记录每只动物分娩前后的每日摄食量。妊娠2 ~ 5个月时体重增加迅速，分娩时体重平均增加为妊娠前体重的41.2%。因此，质量的变化可以作为怀孕的早期指标。在怀孕的12个月里，与前几年相比，摄入的食物量没有明显变化。哺乳期的日摄食量（X = 13.2 kg，占BM的8%）显著高于妊娠期（X = 8.7 kg，占BM的5.2%）（P < 0.001）。
Body mass (BM) was recorded regularly during pregnancy in four female Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus). Daily food intakes were recorded for each animal before and after parturition. BM increase occurred variably between 2 and 5 months of gestation, and at parturition mass increases averaged 41.2% of initial prepregnancy mass. Changes in mass can thus be used as an early indicator of pregnancy. During the 12 months of pregnancy, no significant changes occurred in the amount of food ingested compared with previous years. Daily food intake during lactation (X = 13.2 kg, 8% of BM) proved significantly higher (P < 0.001) than during pregnancy (X = 8.7 kg, 5.2% of BM).