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They loose less heat when they curl up.
You loose more heat from extremities because of the relation between volume and superficial area: lower volume with a higher superficial area traps heat less effectively.
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∙ 13y agoThere are many things that animals use to trap their heat (insulate themselves). Some examples are hair, feathers, and blubber.
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∙ 13y agoto protect themselves from the environment conditions
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∙ 14y agoTo keep warm.
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Why are some animals unable to stand cold temperatures?
They adapt to their surroundings. Different animals have different adaptations. Eg polar bears are large (they have a smaller surface area to volume ratio), they have blubber to keep them warm which also is used to store food, they have small extremeties (ears), and they have 2 layers of insulating fur all over. Including feet. But not all animals adapt in the same way.
What are subtropical animals?
subtropical animals are animals that live in the subtropics. subtropical animals are animals that live in the subtropics.
What are invertrbrates animals?
Invertebrate animals are animals with out Backbones.
What are the different lifestyles of animals?
There are a variety of different lifestyle's of different animals like some animals are domestic or house animals and some animals are live stock animals some animals are wild as well.
What are aborel animals?
Aborel animals are animals that lives in trees.
What is an animals insulating system?
Fur, sunlight, energy, and/or constant moving.
Is the biosphere earth insulating blanket?
No, the atmosphere is the insulating blanket.
Arctic animals can protect themselves from cold weather with?
Furs And Fatsthick fur and insulating layers of fat
Is bubblewrap a good insulator?
Depends what you are insulating against but bubble wrap can be good a insulating.
A major feature in many insulating materials is?
A major feature in many insulating materials is TRAPPED AIR.
What animals live in taigas and what are there adaptations?
Many animals stick to hibernating when the colder temperatures come about. Other animals keep warm from the cold by producing a layer of insulating feathers or fur. Animals include the red squirrel, the lynx, wolverines, bobcats, long-eared owl, snowshoe rabbits, gray wolves, and black bears.
Insulating body hair is a characteristic of?
Insulating body hair is a characteristics of the layer of the fat beneath the human skin.
What are some herbivore adaptations in taiga?
Most animals migrate to warmer climates once the cold weather begins. Some animals have adapted to life in the taiga by hibernating when temperatures drop. Other animals have adapted to the extreme cold temperatures by producing a layer of insulating feathers or fur to protect them from the cold.
Who uses a screwdriver and insulating tape that starts with the letter e?
An electrician uses a screwdriver and insulating tape.
What are the insulating properties of denim?
denim has great insulating propertires as proved by Irish rockers in winter outside central bank
What does insulating mean?
An insulating material is one that doesn't let something through easily. The "something" is usually either electricity, or heat.
Why electrical tools coated with insulating material?
human body is good conductor of electricity.For our safety electric tool are coated with insulating materials.
