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What's the point of being warm-blooded?

04 February 2009 by Nick Lane

 

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IF YOU stopped eating today, you wouldn't survive more than two months. A crocodile, on the other hand, might live for a year or more. Why the difference? You waste most of the food you eat generating heat.

 

What's the point of being warm-blooded? - life - 04 February 2009 - New Scientist

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What! You never heard of the Albino Snow Rattler? Very Dangerous, hides in snow banks waiting to bite humans as they pass by and suck their blood! It's the only way they can feed since all the small mammals are in hibernation! :phones:

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