If you feel like your metabolism just isn’t what it used to be, no matter how many hours you spend in the gym, dolphins can relate.
A Duke University-led study finds that bottlenose dolphins burn calories at a lower rate as they get older, just like we do.
It’s the first time scientists have measured an age-related metabolic slowdown in another large-bodied species besides humans, said first author Rebecca Rimbach, postdoctoral associate in evolutionary anthropology at Duke.
