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Warm blooded animals don't have to wait until it's warm to move around, because they create their own heat. Cold blooded animals, like snakes, must get their temperature up first before they can go about their daily business.

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Why do warmblooded animals need to eat far more than cold-blooded animals?

Because warm blooded animals create thier own heat, hence in order to dessipitate the heat they eat more, in comparison to the cold blooded ones, as a result of which the heat is used up in the metabolisation of the food. However, the cold blooded animals take up heat from the surroundings and hence can regulate what amount of heat they actually require.


What is the difference between warm and cold blooded animals?

Warm blooded animals have internal mechanisms that regulate their body temperature, making them less dependent on the ambient temperature. Cold blooded animals do not have this mechanism and so are more directly influenced by the temperature of the space around them. A warm blooded animal can be highly active in the cold, but requires much more food to maintain such an active metabolism. Cold blooded animals slow down in the cold and become more active when it is warm. Their slower metabolism requires less food, so they can go for longer between meals.


What is different about a warm blooded animal and a cold blooded animal?

Warm blooded animals have internal mechanisms that regulate their body temperature, making them less dependent on the ambient temperature. Cold blooded animals do not have this mechanism and so are more directly influenced by the temperature of the space around them. A warm blooded animal can be highly active in the cold, but requires much more food to maintain such an active metabolism. Cold blooded animals slow down in the cold and become more active when it is warm. Their slower metabolism requires less food, so they can go for longer between meals.


What is the difference between cold blooded and warm blooded vertebrates?

Warm blooded animals generate their own heat through their metabolism. Cold blooded animals need warmth of the environment to bring their bodily temperature to normal temp. The main difference between a cold-blooded animal and a warmblooded one is that the warmblooded one has a physiology that includes mechanisms that heat and keep the body warm. The cold-blooded animal lacks these things and its body temperature will change in response to the weather (hot sun, snow) and what the animal can do to avoid the effects of that weather (like a lizard sunning on a rock early in the moring or hiding in the shade at noon). Warm blooded animals have a constant temperature, and can live in cold temperatures. Cold blooded animal's blood temperature depends on their environment's temperature.


Why did the warmblooded and coldblooded are difference?

Warm blooded animals are able to produce body heat, and can be active even in extreme cold. Mammals are warm blooded. Cold blooded animals become torpid and may even hibernate during cold weather. For example: a snake (reptile) is cold blooded and needs to bask in the morning sun to warm up before becoming more active. Frogs and toads will bury themselves in the mud of a pond to escape being frozen during winter.


What is the difference between cold blooded and warm blooded?

warm blooded animals usually have more flesh, and live on land. cold blooded animals are things like fish etc. that live in water


Are there more warm blooded animals or cold blooded animals?

Both. Birds and mammals make up the warm-blooded group, whereas the reptiles, amphibians, and insects make up the cold-blooded group.


Are animals keep steady body temperature?

Horses can control their temperature about as much as we can. The terms warm-blooded, hot-blooded and cold-blooded have nothing to do with the actual temperature of that breed of equines. It is simply a term to divide breeds into; cold-blooded, the heavier, bigger draft horses; warm-blooded, most riding breeds; and hot-blooded, Arab and Thoroughbred horses.


Are arthropods cold blooed or warm blooded?

Ladybugs are cold blooded animals, as are all insects.


What are the Cold blooded animals that hatch from eggs?

Snakes are cold blooded any they do lay eggs. Also alligators and lizards are cold bloods who both lay eggs. More examples are turtles, tortoises, fish, and crocodilles. If you are wondering what they call cold-blooded, egg laying animals, they are called ectothrems.