Table 9. Values used in the calculation of the Filter/Recovery Metabolic rate (F/RMR; equation 5).

Parameter	Symbol	Unit	Computational	Blue	Fin	Humpback	Reference
(1) Morphology
Body length	Lbody	m		25	20	14	[39]
Body mass	Mc	kg		92,671	52,584	35,692	[39]
Body volume	Uc	m3		86.4	45.9	31.5
Body surface area	Abody	m2	SA = 0.08Mc 0.65	131.5	87.1	68.2	[14]
Fluke total surface area (m2)	Afluke	m2		9.19	6.26	10.43	[14] [24]
(2) Oxygen stores
O2 stores (Lungs)
Total lunge capacity	TLC	l	0.1 X Mc 0.96	5865	3404	2347	Kooyman, 1989
Diving lunge volume	DLV	l	0.75 X TLC	4399	2553	1760	Goforth, 1986
Total O2 in lungs	Olung	l	0.15 X DLV	660	383	264	Kooyman, 1989
O2 stores (muscle)
Muscle mass	Mm	%Mc		39.4	45.6	30.6	[39]
Muscle mass	Mm	kg		36,512	23,978	10,922
Myoglobin	Mb	g	34 g kg−1	1,241,421	815,262	371,340	Noren & Williams, 2000
O2 combining capacity	ηO	1 g−1 Mb		0.0013	0.0013	0.0013	Kooyman, 1989
Total O2 in muscle	Omuscle	l		1614	1060	483
O2 stores (Blood)
Blood volume	BV	l	0.127 l kg-1	11,769	6,678	4,533	Ridgway et al., 1984
Arterial volume	AV	l	0.33BV	3,884	2,204	1,496	Lenfant et al., 1970
Venous volume	VV	l	0.67BV	7,885	4,474	3,037	Lenfant et al., 1970
Arterial haemoglobin	AHB	g	209 g l−1	811,723	460,593	312,633	Ridgway et al., 1984
Venous haemoglobin	VHB	g	209 g l−1	1,648,043	935,144	634,740	Ridgway et al., 1984
O2 combining capacity	ηO	1 g−1 Mb		0.0013	0.0013	0.0013
arterial blood O2	ABO	l	98% saturation	1034	587	398	Kooyman, 1989
venous blood O2	VBO	l	75% saturation	1656	940	638	Kooyman, 1989
Total O2 in blood	Oblood	l	ABO + VBO	2690	1527	1036
Total Body O2 stores	Obody	l	Olung + Omuscle + Oblood	4964	2969	1783
Liters/min burned at BMR rate		l O2/min	Obody/4.0Mc 0.74	2.98	2.98	2.98	[24]