Lipid Determination & Kidney Fat Index: An Experiment for Undergraduate Students in Wildlife Management.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Rioux, Pierre, ; Diouf, Boucar,
- Source
- American Biology Teacher (National Association of Biology Teachers); Oct2006, Vol. 68 Issue 8, p114-116, 3p
- Subject
- Scientific experimentation
Biology education
Lipids
Laboratory rabbits
Kidneys
- Language
- ISSN
- 00027685
The article presents information on a biology class experiment which determined the lipid content in wildlife using the kidney fat index (KFI). KFI measures perirenal fat which is a reliable indicator of total lipid content in animals. The experiment used carcasses of New Zealand rabbits and a period of six continuous hours were dedicated to completing the exercise. The KFI was highly significantly and positively correlated with the percentage of total carcass lipids in the rabbits.