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Cold-blooded animals have a variable body temperature which reflects the environmental temperature (eg. fish and reptiles).

Warm-blooded animals keep their core body temperature at a nearly consistent level regardless of the temperature of the surrounding environment (eg. birds and mammals).

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This is what we are referring to when we say an animal is either cold blooded or warm blooded. It is one aspect of homeostastis.?

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What can cold blooded animals can do that warm blooded can do?

Say that they are warm blooded.


What do you mean if you say an animal has an exothermic or ectothermic body temperature?

these are basically scientific, formal ways of saying cold blooded and warm blooded. endothermic means they have a constant body temperature, and therefore means warm blooded. exothermic is a varying body temperature, meaning cold blooded.


What can warm blooded animals do that cold blooded animals can not?

Say that they are warm blooded.


Is mammal cold blooded or warm blooded?

All mammals are "warm-blooded," although that term is a little confusing. Any animal's blood is warm if the animal is warm (as if it's been lying in the sun, say). Mammals (and birds) are warm-blooded ALL THE TIME because they burn food to keep their body temperatures at a predetermined point (for people, around 37 degrees C). As a consequence, mammals (and birds) need proportionately more food than reptiles or fish of the same weight.


What does it mean when a horse is cold blooded?

Horses like:ShiresClydesdaleFriesianAlbanianAmerican Cream DraftArdennesArgentine CriolloBalearicBan-eiBashkirAnd more, there not cold blooded they just say that because the horses are so big and strong they just call them cold blooded but there really warm blooded


What is the coolest warm blooded animal?

Definitely a Penguin I would say the humpback whale, as it is large, mysterious and when they communicate, it sounds like they're singing.


Is the praying mantis cold blooded?

I am almost positive it is cold blooded but some sources say it may be warm blooded.


Is a dove cold blooded?

No. Pigeons are warm-blooded animals, like all birds.


Are Ladybugs warm or coldblooded?

I say warm blooded because they dont live in water but if they du they will dye.


What is another name for animal?

Mammals are in the vertebrate order Mammalia, and are endothermic tetrapod amniotes. This means that they are warm-blooded, four-legged, and reproduce by eggs.


Are herbivores and carnivores warm blooded or cold blooded?

I suppose you can say that most herbivores are warm blooded but there are exceptions (a tortoise would be one), but carnivore are sort of a mixture (sharks are cold-blooded but lions are warm blooded). In conclusion, you can't really pin this one down but I hope this answer helped slightly.