Popular Science Metabolic Rates

 

I opened the compost container we keep on the kitchen counter and a CLOUD of fruit flies came out. Yuck! I hate those little buggers. Then I read this article in Popular Science.

 

 

 

 

"At the gym, humans burn roughly two watts of power per kilogram of body weight - only lightly more than an elephant just standing still. But the fastest metabolisms in nature put even our best athletes to shame.

 

 

Yeast burns 269 watts per kilogram {Yeah for Sour Dough Starter!}

Fruit fly burns 34 W/kg {Die and burn out nasty little pests!}

Anna's hummingbird 24 W/kg

Paramecium 2.8 W/kg {One of my favorite microscopic creatures}

 

Human jogging at 6 mph 2.2 W/kg (You will never see me doing that.)

Asian Elephant 0.64 W/kg

Reticulated python 0.085 W/kg (Creeps me out to even type that!)

 

 

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