Is a moon jellyfish ectothermic or endothermic?

Answer 1

no. endothermic means it is warm blooded. only mammals and birds are warm blooded. jellyfish are cold blooded

Answer:

Endothermic is one of the three methods animals have of maintaining their body temperature. All of these used to be lumped together as being "warmblooded" and was thought to be the trait of mammals and birds alone. Recent studies indicate that many existing creatures other than mammals can exhibit part of the warm blooded trait (tuna, swordfish) and some extinct non-mammals (dinosaurs) were also warm blooded. The three temperature regulating methods are: # Endothermy: control tof body temperatures through internal means (muscle shivering, fat/sugar burning) # Homeothermy: maintaining a stable internal body temperature regardless of external itemperatures. # Tachymetabolism:maintaining a high resting metabolism

Jellyfish exhibit none of the ways of being "warm blooded" including being Endothermic.