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Reptiles like high steady body temperatures just as mammals and birds do, however, and this means they have sophisticated ways to manage flows of heat between their bodies and the environment. One common way they do this is to use blood flow within the body to facilitate heat uptake and retard heat loss. A lizard basking in the sun, for example, ramps up its cardiac output. In this way, heat is transferred rapidly from the warm skin, to the body, and the body heats rapidly. Once the lizard has stopped basking, its cardiac output declines, retaining heat within the body so that the body cools slowly. In this way, a lizard can minimize the time it spends soaking up heat, and maximizes the time it can spend doing other essential things, like looking for food and mates or defending territories.
All reptiles are cold-blooded, which means they rely on external sources of heat to regulate their body temperature. This characteristic distinguishes them from warm-blooded animals, such as mammals and birds, which can regulate their body temperature internally.
Actually all reptiles are cold blooded. To classify an animal to be a reptile, they need to have scales, and they have to be cold blooded. All snakes, lizards, alligators, skinks, Caiman's, etc. are cold blooded
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Are reptials warm blooded?
Most reptiles are cold-blooded, meaning they rely on external sources of heat to regulate their body temperature. However, some exceptions like certain species of snakes and marine reptiles exhibit characteristics of being warm-blooded by generating heat internally.
What is the difference between mammals and reptiles?
reptiles are cold blooded and mammals are warm blooded.
Are turtles cold blooded or warm blooded?
Like all reptiles alive today, green sea turtles are cold blooded.
Are reptiles cold blooded or waerm blooded?
Nearly all reptiles are cold blooded. This means their body temperature is determined by how warm or how cold their surroundings are. (Thus, it is believed that most reptiles would not do very well in a cold climate, since it would drive down their body temperature to dangerous levels.) It should be noted that scientists believe some ancient dinosaurs, although reptilian, were warm-blooded. But these days, reptiles are generally classified as cold-blooded. Reptiles are cold blooded. Their temperature is determined by the environment.They warm up their blood by standing in the sun. cold blooded. thats why snakes lay on rocks in the sun in the summer. Reptiles are cold blooded. That's why snakes lie on rocks in the sun in the summer. Reptiles are cold blooded creatures. This does not literally mean that their blood is necessarily cold, it means that they do not maintain any specific blood temperature (as mammals do) but that their blood will have the same temperature as the environment where the reptile is. In warm weather they will have warm blood, and in colder weather, they will have colder blood.
Are cows cold blooded?
Cold-blooded - just like all reptiles.
Are Snakes cold-blooded or warm-blooded?
snakes and all other reptiles are cold blooded :)
Are iguanas cold blooded or warm blooded?
they are cold blooded just like all reptiles.
Are reptiles warm blooded or cold blooded?
cold blooded
Is a crocidile warm blooded or cold blooded?
Crocodiles are reptiles, and like all reptiles, are cold-blooded.
Are you reptiles?
No. We are mammals Reptiles are cold blooded we are warm blooded.
Are reptiles cold blooded true of fulse?
True. All reptiles are cold blooded
Are reptiles warm- or cold-blooded?
cold-blooded
Are reptiles warm cold blooded?
they are cold blooded
What are mammals and reptiles?
Mammals are warm blooded and reptiles are cold blooded.
Is a gecko cold or warm blooded?
Cold-blooded
Are German shepherds cold blooded or warm blooded?
German Shepherds are dogs, dogs are mammals. Only fish and reptiles are cold blooded.
Are amphibians and reptiles both cold blooded?
yes they are amphibians and reptiles are cold blooded :D
