BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Evaporation, Zoology
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Ambient temp is the temp in surroundings. Any body tends to equiberlate- with ambient surrounding: if you go out on cold day, you lose heat to environment, if you go out on hot day, you gain heat. Both hot and cold temp are bad for you because you gain/lose heat. Looses are countered by changing heat exchange parameters, What determines the heat capacity of animal is the surface area of the animal. Elephants are exceptions, but not exactly: elephants are built to have low quality diet inorder to maintain size, also bergman"s rule apply to related animals, mammoths used to live where elephants lived (africa) during the ice ages. Allen"s rule: appendages reduced in cold climates. We see animals are longer and skinner in warm climates. Max surface area/volume is chysoplea gliding snake. Musk oxin isolate with fur, and huddle together for insulatoin.
