Mass-Specific Food Intake

Mass-specific food intake

A) increases linearly as body mass declines.
B) is the same for all vertebrate groups but is variable in some invertebrate groups.
C) means that the daily energy requirement must necessarily increase with size.
D) may be related to types of diet that animals select; small animals can afford to increase search time for scarce but nutritious foods while large animals eat poor-quality bulk foods such as grasses.
E) shows that larger animals require quality food.