What are your thoughts on this article about fuel switching?

Scientists infused prey items with isotopes they could track to find out where the energy used during digestion of a meal comes from.

The data showed that the initial energy used to digest a meal is provided from the snake’s energy stores for a period of several hours. At a certain point during digestion, fuel switching occurs and the rest of the process is completed using energy consumed from the meal itself.
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