Biology / Unit 12 Bio 2759 worked example, 60 to 90 seconds
Classifying an Animal's Thermoregulatory Strategy, Worked
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The idea
This procedure sorts an unfamiliar animal's thermoregulatory strategy by applying this chapter's endotherm/ectotherm, metabolic-rate, and heat-exchange criteria in sequence.
Where people slip
Basking alone does not prove ectothermy — some endotherms bask too, to save metabolic energy — so the metabolic-rate and behavior criteria have to be checked together, not the heat-source criterion alone.
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