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STUDIES of the nutrition and nitrogen metabolism of some macropod marsupials (kangaroos and wallabies) suggested that the level of energy metabolism of marsupials may be lower than that of eutherian mammals1.
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KINNEAR, J., BROWN, G. Minimum Heart Rates of Marsupials. Nature 215, 1501 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/2151501a0
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