Don't tell me to cut myself open, because that wouldn't really tell me anyway
2006-09-04 08:15:32 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
here is a "cool" website that will explain the difference between warm- and cold- blooded animal.
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/image_galleries/ir_zoo/coldwarm.html
Warm blooded animals maintain a constant body temperature while cold-blooded mammals change their body temperature to be similar to the surroundings.
Here is an experiment that you could do...If it is snowing outside (temperature - 4 C approx.) and if you were to run outside and take all of your clothes off, would you freeze? Well .... not for a while anyway. You would start to shiver and this shivering is the body's mechanism to increase heat production to maintain your 37 C body temperature.
You could also use a swimming pool. Measure the temperature of the swimming pool. Jump in and measure your body temperature with a thermometer.
2006-09-04 08:24:45 · answer #1 · answered by random.acts 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The warm-blooded animals have a thermoregulation system that mantains the body temperature at an optimal setpoint value, even if the body is exposed to hot or cold environments. For the humans, the setpoint is 37°C. The regulation allows these animals to survive at ambient temperatures very far from the optimal body temperature (i.e. -10°C, + 50°C). The cold-blooded animals don't have the regulation, so their blood gets cold in cold environments and gets hot in the hot ones, thus compromising the biological functions and damaging the animal. The human race is hot-blooded.
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2006-09-04 15:28:33 · answer #2 · answered by Metal Gospel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The bodies of warm-blooded animals try to stay at about the same temperature, no matter how the temperature of the room or environment may change up or down. The bodies of cold-blooded animals tend to stay at about the temperature of the room or environment, up or down.
2006-09-04 15:23:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean cold natured or warm natured?? Because if your a mammal you are warm blooded...if you are a reptile, I want to know how you are using the computer!!
2006-09-04 15:21:01 · answer #4 · answered by ajnshane 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go outside unprotected on a cold day and stand for a few hours.
If your body temperature starts to equal the ambient temperature you are cold blooded.
If you maintain your body temperature, you are warm blooded.
If you are the latter and your body temperature starts to equal the ambient temperature, you are dead.
2006-09-04 15:23:31 · answer #5 · answered by williegod 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Take your temperature. If it is different than room temperature, you are warm blooded.
2006-09-04 15:21:49 · answer #6 · answered by STEVEN F 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Presumably you are a mammal, therefore you are warm-blooded, by definition.
2006-09-04 15:18:15 · answer #7 · answered by Jim S 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are warm-blooded, just like all other mammals.
2006-09-04 15:18:15 · answer #8 · answered by KD Force 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
humans are all warm blooded, all mammals are, reptiles are cold blooded
2006-09-04 15:20:23 · answer #9 · answered by rhino_man420 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You're Homo Sapiens ergo you're a mammal, ergo warm blooded.
2006-09-04 15:20:55 · answer #10 · answered by Whitney S 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋