Gigantothermy
Gigantothermy (sometimes called ectothermic homeothermy or inertial homeothermy) is a phenomenon with significance in biology and paleontology, whereby large, bulky ectothermic animals are more easily able to maintain a constant, relatively high body temperature than smaller animals by virtue of their smaller surface-area-to-volume ratio. A bigger animal has proportionately less of its body close to the outside environment than a smaller animal of otherwise similar shape, and so it gains heat from, or loses heat to, the environment much more slowly.
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Gigantothermy
Gigantothermy (sometimes called ectothermic homeothermy or inertial homeothermy) is a phenomenon with significance in biology and paleontology, whereby large, bulky ectothermic animals are more easily able to maintain a constant, relatively high body temperature than smaller animals by virtue of their smaller surface-area-to-volume ratio. A bigger animal has proportionately less of its body close to the outside environment than a smaller animal of otherwise similar shape, and so it gains heat from, or loses heat to, the environment much more slowly.
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Gigantothermy (sometimes calle ...... g them virtually homeothermic.
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La gigantotermia u homeotermia ...... relación volumen/superficie.
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La gigantothermie (parfois app ...... laire à celui des endothermes.
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La gigantotèrmia (de vegades n ...... essent virtualment homeoterms.
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Per gigantotermia od omeotermi ...... o bianco e la tartaruga liuto.
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عظيمة الحرارة (باللاتينية: Gig ...... برزها سمك القرش الأبيض الكبير.
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Gigantothermy (sometimes calle ...... environment much more slowly.
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La gigantotermia u homeotermia ...... relación volumen/superficie.
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La gigantothermie (parfois app ...... donc beaucoup plus lentement.
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La gigantotèrmia (de vegades n ...... a i perd calor més lentament..
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Per gigantotermia od omeotermi ...... lli degli organismi endotermi.
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عظيمة الحرارة (باللاتينية: Gig ...... برزها سمك القرش الأبيض الكبير.
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Gigantotermia
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Gigantotermia
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Gigantothermie
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Gigantothermy
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Gigantotèrmia
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عظيمة الحرارة
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