Sentences with phrase «male body mass»

After wind turbine construction, they found an increased rate of lek abandonment at sites within eight kilometers of the turbines as well as a slight decrease in male body mass.

Our monitoring work indicates that (on - average) bears in the Svalbard population have NOT declined in condition over the last two decades — based on male body masses and fat levels».

Not exact matches

Males have a lower percent body fat so the same weight is in muscular mass rather than fat.

A healthy body mass index, or BMI, is important for optimizing male fertility.

It is a monogamous and sexually dimorphic species (males are heavier) which shares parental care and has exhibited in the last decades an increase in average body mass and breeding success in parallel to experiencing increasing wind speeds.

In his study, Little recruited ten healthy adult males with similar athletic abilities and body mass indices.

When it comes to how many offspring a male can father, «it seems that compared to body mass, tooth size is relatively unimportant,» says Joanne Isaac, a mammalogist at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, who was not part of the study team.

As days shorten in the fall, males lose approximately 30 percent of their body mass, their fur moults and their testes decrease significantly in size.

«Your characteristics as an adult male — body size, lean mass, and sexual maturation — are programmed by your early experiences,» says lead author Christopher Kuzawa, a biological anthropologist at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois.

PVI was related to age, male gender, body mass index (BMI) and duration of diabetes.

At the same time, the 41 to 48 kg body mass range estimated for S1 (Table 3) falls easily within the range of male Au.

As you already know, testosterone is a hormone which plays many important roles in the male (and female, but to a lesser extent) body, including maintaining muscle mass, bone density, energy levels, strength and sex drive.

This comes as no surprise given the direct connection between the levels of testosterone in a male body with the increased libido, hair growth and one triggering fact for bodybuilders everywhere: muscle mass.

The males in the first group had overall lower lean body mass of less than 143 pounds (65 kilograms) and the males in the second group had it above 154 pounds (70 kilograms).

Garry's new style of training, called Paleolithic High Intensity Interval Training (Paleolithic HIIT), has one goal: to bring the male body back to a state of masculinity, by blasting away man boobs, reducing body fat, and increasing muscle mass.

A fundamental reason as to why males carry more lean body mass than females, and have the potential to develop greater amounts of muscle in less time, is precisely because their natural testosterone levels are many times higher than females.

North Carolina State University reports that male athletes may need 20 calories per pound of body weight to maintain their body mass, and up to 27 calories per pound of body weight each day to increase muscle mass.

In the Minnesota Experiment during WWII, for example, lean healthy males who were fed «half - rations» (1600 kcal and 50 g / d protein) for 6 months lost 1/3 of their lean body mass, leaving them functionally debilitated.

Males had an average of 33.0 kg of muscle mass (not lean body mass) and females had an average of 21.0 kg of muscle mass.

In another study using 24 adult neutered male cats, researchers found that cats needed to eat at least 2.3 grams of protein per pound of body weight per day to maintain muscle mass.

In setting up a mass of «male dolls» in «Men,» I realized they had a far wider variation of body type and «professional» associations than their female counterparts, either baby dolls for young girls to play «Mommy» with, or skinny fashion models for young girls to dress up.

Evolutionary psychologists have been long - interested in male preferences for female traits, because those traits are thought to indicate a woman's fertility.2 Whereas most studies focus on what makes specific body traits attractive, such as the waist - to - hip ratio, body mass index, 3 or breast shape and size, 4,5 little research has looked at individual preferences for specific traits.