
%0 Journal Article
%A Wallis, IR 
%A Green, B 
%T Seasonal Field Energetics of the Rufous Rat-Kangaroo (Aepyprymnus-Rufescens)
%J Australian Journal of Zoology
%D 1992/06/01
%V 40
%N 3
%P 279-290
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/ZO9920279
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/ZO9920279 
%X Water flux and field metabolic rate (FMR) were measured by the doubly labelled water (DLW) method in free-living male and female rufous rat-kangaroos Aepyprymnus rufescens near Drake in northern New South Wales. The mean FMR of 499 kJ kg-1 day-1 was similar in winter and summer even though the difference in mean minimum temperatures between the two seasons was 20-degrees-C. Furthermore, we did not find any differences in FMR between males and females even though several females carried large pouch young or had young-at-foot. A poor understanding of the diet and the behavioural ecology of A. rufescens makes ft difficult to explain the similarities between sexes and seasons. 
