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  2. What does cold weather mean for snakes and alligators in SC ...

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    Just as some warm-blooded animals hibernate during the winter as they endure frigid temperatures, alligators and snakes, which are cold-blooded reptiles, undergo a different form of self ...

  3. Kleptothermy - Wikipedia

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    Male Canadian garter snakes huddle around a female after hibernation when mating.. Huddling confers higher and more constant body temperatures than solitary resting. [3] Some species of ectotherms including lizards [4] and snakes, such as boa constrictors [5] and tiger snakes, [6] increase their effective mass by clustering tightly together.

  4. Snake - Wikipedia

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    The circulatory system of a snake is basically like those of any other vertebrae. However, snakes do not regulate internally the temperature of their blood. Called cold-blooded, snakes actually have blood that is responsive to the varying temperature of the immediate environment. Snakes can regulate blood temperature by moving.

  5. Ectotherm - Wikipedia

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    An ectotherm (from the Greek ἐκτός (ektós) "outside" and θερμός (thermós) "heat"), more commonly referred to as a "cold-blooded animal", [1] is an animal in which internal physiological sources of heat, such as blood, are of relatively small or of quite negligible importance in controlling body temperature. [2]

  6. Where do SC snakes go in the winter? They don’t really ...

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    Snakes are cold-blooded, meaning they cannot regulate their own body temperatures like humans or other warm-blooded animals. A snake’s body temperature changes with the outside temperatures.

  7. Where do KY’s copperheads, other snakes go in the ... - AOL

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    In the fall, when the days get shorter and temperatures drop, snakes generally begin to pare back their activity to daylight hours only, given they are ectothermic (cold-blooded) creatures that ...

  8. Rattlesnake - Wikipedia

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    The skin of snakes is highly sensitive to contact, tension, and pressure; they are capable of feeling pain. [67] An important function of the skin is the sensation of changes in air temperature, which can guide the snakes towards warm basking/shelter locations. [68] All snakes are ectotherms. To maintain a stable body temperature, they exchange ...

  9. Warm-blooded - Wikipedia

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    Warm-blooded is a term referring to animal species whose bodies maintain a temperature higher than that of their environment. In particular, homeothermic species (including birds and mammals ) maintain a stable body temperature by regulating metabolic processes.