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These data therefore provide substantially more support for the HDL http://www.selleckchem.com/products/AZD2281(Olaparib).html theory than the MTE model. Water has 23?��?greater thermal conductivity than air (Schmidt-Nielsen 1975). Consequently, the HDL theory predicts that large aquatic mammals should be far less constrained in their FMR than terrestrial mammals because their maximal capacity to dissipate heat (Hs) will be correspondingly greater. The HDL theory predicts that their DEEs should be able to break out above the constrained levels for large terrestrial animals. We found in the literature an additional 22 measurements of FMR for ten species of aquatic mammal made using the DLW technique. Pooling the data for both terrestrial and aquatic mammals, the FMRs in aquatic mammals (Fig.?5) were significantly higher than observed for the terrestrial mammals (F1,309?=?7��97, P? http://www.selleck.cn/products/BEZ235.html with the prediction that in the aquatic habitat their Hs is enormously elevated, releasing them from the constraint imposed on equivalent sized terrestrial animals. By contrast, the MTE makes no prediction for such an elevation in FMR of pinnipeds as there is no a priori reason to believe http://www.selleckchem.com/products/PLX-4032.html that this particular order of mammals has a unique fractal distribution system that is substantially more efficient. Above we introduced the notion that the convergence of the relationship between Hs and BMR would ultimately constrain the maximum possible size for an endotherm. The fact that aquatic habitats permit greater heat dissipation leads to the prediction from the HDL theory that the largest possible endotherm living in water will be much larger than the largest possible endotherm living on land. Considering extant endotherms, this is undoubtedly the case. The blue whale Balaneoptera?musculus with an Mb of about 80�C100?��?106?g weighs substantially more than the African elephant Loxodonta?africanus with an Mb of at most 7�C9?��?106?g. However, the fossil record reveals many extinct terrestrial animals that were much larger than modern elephants. The largest of these, the sauropod dinosaur Argentinosaurus, approaches in predicted mass that of the blue whale (Mazzetta, Christiansen & Fari?a 2004). However, this comparison is potentially compromised in several ways. First is the accuracy of the predicted mass of this animal from relatively little fossil material (Paul 1997).