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Heterothermy — (from Greek: heteros = other thermē = heat. ) is a physiological term for animals that exhibit characteristics of both poikilothermy and homeothermy. Contents 1 Temporal heterothermy 2 Regional heterothermy 3 References … Wikipedia
Heterothermic — (from Greek: hetero = other thermy = heat. ) is a physiological term referring to a unique case of poikilothermy. Heterothermic creatures are homeothermic for a portion of the day, or year. More often than not, it is usually used as a way to… … Wikipedia
Puerto Rican Tody — Taxobox name = Puerto Rican Tody status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 status ref = [IUCN2006|assessors=BirdLife International|year=2004|id=47686|title=Todus mexicanus|downloaded=11 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this… … Wikipedia
bat — bat1 /bat/, n., v., batted, batting. n. 1. Sports. a. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball. b. a racket, esp. one used in badminton or table tennis. c. a whip used by a jockey. d. the act of using a… … Universalium
Warm-blooded — In biology, a warm blooded animal species is one whose members maintain thermal homeostasis; that is, they keep their body temperature at a roughly constant level, regardless of the ambient temperature. This involves the ability to cool down or… … Wikipedia
Bumblebee — Taxobox name = Bombus image width = 200px image caption = male Bombus terrestris robbing nectar regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Hymenoptera familia = Apidae subfamilia = Apinae tribus = Bombini genus = Bombus genus… … Wikipedia
Sunbird — For other uses, see Sunbird (disambiguation). Sunbirds and spiderhunters … Wikipedia
Gigantothermy — The great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, exhibits gigantothermy Gigantothermy (sometimes called ectothermic homeothermy) is a phenomenon with significance in biology and paleontology, whereby large, bulky ectothermic animals are more easily … Wikipedia
cold-bloodedness — See cold bloodedly. * * * ▪ zoology also called Poikilothermy, Ectothermy, or Heterothermy, the state of having a variable body temperature that is usually only slightly higher than the environmental temperature. This state distinguishes … Universalium
dormancy — /dawr meuhn see/, n. the state of being dormant. [1780 90; DORM(ANT) + ANCY] * * * ▪ biology Introduction state of reduced metabolic activity adopted by many organisms under conditions of environmental stress or, often, as in winter, when… … Universalium
