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    Metabolic Energy Expenditure and Its Hormoral Regulation

    All living beings need energy to maintain a low level of entropy, that means to stay alive, grow, and behave as living organisms. Therefore, they continually have to expend energy gained from the environment. ...

    Rolf Ziegler in Environmental Physiology and Biochemistry of Insects (1985)