What is the difference between warm and cold blooded animals?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

Warm-blooded creatures, like mammals and birds, try to keep the inside of their bodies at a constant temperature. They do this by generating their own heat when they are in a cooler environment, and by cooling themselves when they are in a hotter environment. To generate heat, warmblooded animals convert the food that they eat into energy. They have to eat a lot of food, compared with cold-blooded animals, to maintain a constant body temperature. Only a small amount of the food that a warmblooded animal eats is converted into body mass. The rest is used to fuel a constant body temperature.

Cold-blooded creatures take on the temperature of their surroundings. They are hot when their environment is hot and cold when their environment is cold. In hot environments, cold-blooded animals can have blood that is much warmer than warmblooded animals. Cold-blooded animals are much more active in warm environments and are very sluggish in cold environments. This is because their muscle activity depends on chemical reactions which run quickly when it is hot and slowly when it is cold. A cold-blooded animal can convert much more of its food into body mass compared with a warmblooded animal.

Answer 4

As I understand it, cold blooded animals adapt to whatever temperature it is around them. Warm blooded animals, particdularly humans, need maintain their normal temperatures by whatever means necessary in order to avoid either heat stroke or hypothermia.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

cold blood animals are cold when they in cold temperature and hot when they are in hot temperature; they didn't need high amount of food to maintain their energy into fats. warm blood animals require high amount of food to convert energy into fats.

Answer 7

Warm-blooded animals can regulate their body temperature internally, maintaining a relatively constant temperature regardless of the external environment. Cold-blooded animals, on the other hand, rely on external sources to regulate their body temperature and their internal temperature fluctuates with the environment.