ABSTRACT
The formulae in Chapter 3 were developed for a living organism, i.e. for an individual. When the results are arrived at, it is noted that the ‘individual’ energy budgets are not obtained from individuals taken at random, but from individuals representative either of different classes of a natural population or of different batches of a reared population. This representative individual is termed a standard animal and is precisely defined in a statistical way. In the results given hereafter, it is therefore understood that all the values given have been calculated statistically, from measurements carried out on a large number of individuals.
