. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jan 6.

Published in final edited form as: J Exp Biol. 2010 Aug 15;213(Pt 16):2832–2839. doi: 10.1242/jeb.040238

Table 1.

Energy intake of lactating hares in the three experimental groups

	WW	CC	WC
GEI (kJ kg ⁻¹ day⁻¹)	1325.5 ± 42.03	1680.03 ± 54.01	1572.9 ± 37.07
MEI (kJ kg ⁻¹ day⁻¹) over intervals 1-3 (lactation onset)	568.09 ± 42.44	863.353 ± 60.37	987.55 ± 41.13
Mean MEI (kJ kg ⁻¹ day⁻¹)	827.96 ± 34.12	1067.32 ± 37.96	1048.2 ± 26.6
Peak MEI (kJ kg ⁻¹ day⁻¹)	1018.13 ± 62.9	1250.1 ± 50.8	1165.9 ± 34.3
AE (%)	61.34 ± 1.2	63.14 ± 0.8	67.13 ± 1.08

Mean MEO (kJ kg ⁻¹ day⁻¹)	261.5 ± 12.6	317.3 ± 19.6	359.6 ± 14.1

Data are means ± s.e.m for n= 12, 8 and 9 litters from groups WW, CC and WC, respectively.

WW: females and juveniles at room temperature conditions (22 ± 2° C)

CC: females and juveniles exposed to 5° ± 2° C during lactation

WC: females maintained at room temperature conditions (22 ± 2° C) while juveniles kept at 5° ± 2° C