0 If a living organism is homeothermic, it is able to keep its body temperature at the same level despite any change in the temperature around it:
Homeothermic animals are often described as warm-blooded.
For example, as indicated earlier, many nematodes particularly those that are skin-penetrating parasites of homeothermic hosts are positively thermotactic.
It has been suggested that the larger dinosaurs would have been gigantothermic, rendering them virtually homeothermic.
This difference in energy requirement also means that a given food source can support a greater density of poikilothermic animals than homeothermic animals.
They brood the chicks over a period of 12 to 14 days, by which point they are feathered and homeothermic.
Hummingbirds have the highest metabolism of any homeothermic animal.
This makes them homeothermic when active, and poikilothermic when at rest.
This is reflected in the predator-prey ratio which is usually higher in poikilothermic fauna compared to homeothermic ones.
As with other ratites, the emu has great homeothermic ability, and can maintain this status from 5 to 45 degrees.
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恆溫的,溫血的(生物在外部溫度變化的情況下保持體溫的能力)…
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恒温的,温血的(有机体在外部温度变化的情况下保持体温的能力)…
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