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.
Most endothermic organisms are homeothermic, like mammals.
These exceptions may be due to the warm-blooded, or homeothermic, nature of these sharks' physiology.
Being homeothermic (warm-blooded) marine mammals, pinnipeds need a low surface area to body mass ratio.
Heterothermy or heterothermia refers to animals that can switch between ectothermic (or poikilothermic) and endothermic (or homeothermic) strategies.
These bats have developed a specialized system using infrared-sensitive receptors on their nose-leaf to prey on homeothermic (warm-blooded) vertebrates.
As with other ratites, the emu has great homeothermic ability, and can maintain this status from 5 to 45 degrees.
This is reflected in the predator-prey ratio which is usually higher in poikilothermic fauna compared to homeothermic ones.
This makes them homeothermic when active, and poikilothermic when at rest.
