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Cold-blooded is an informal term for one or more of a group of characteristics that determine an animal's thermophysiology. These include: Ectothermy, controlling body temperature through external processes, such as by basking in the sun; Poikilothermy, the ability of an organism to function over a wide internal temperature range
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]
The naked mole-rat exhibits a highly unusual set of physiological and behavioral traits that allow it to thrive in a harsh underground environment; most notably its being the only mammalian thermoconformer with an almost entirely ectothermic (cold-blooded) form of body temperature regulation, [8] as well as exhibiting eusociality, a complex ...
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This really should be under Ectotherm instead of Cold-Blooded, since Cold-Blooded is archaic and not technically correct. Woofles 01:30, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC) . I believe the title of this page should be "Ectothermic" because "cold-blooded" is a term used by people who are not really into Biology and such - "Ectothermic" is the proper word for "cold-blooded".
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