Gigantothermy
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gigantothermy-249-13431818
title:
Gigantothermy
text:
Gigantothermy is a phenomenon with significance in biology and paleontology, whereby large, bulky ectothermic animals are more easily able to maintain a constant, relatively high body temperature than smaller animals by virtue of their smaller surface-area-to-volume ratio. A bigger animal has proportionately less of its body close to the outside environment than a smaller animal of otherwise similar shape, and so it gains heat from, or loses heat to, the environment much more slowly. The phenome
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description:
Form of thermoregulation by body size
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigantothermy
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date modified:
2023-04-28T02:56:01Z
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