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06-24-2002, 09:31 AM
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Max, warm-blooded (endothermic) creatures are defined as having a constant body temperature, no matter what the temperature of the surroundings is. If their body temperature drops or rises a few degrees they die. To maintain a constant temperature, they need to ingest larger amounts of energy than cold-blooded (exothermic) creatures, who get a lot of their energy from external heat. Lions, for example, eat 10 times more food than crocodiles.

Exothermic creatures are the same temperature as their suroundings and their temperatures can rise or fall many degrees above its normal one without harming the animal (at a temperature cold enough to kill a human, a lot of lizards would merely be lethargic).

Personally, I think Sligs are endothermic. Cold-blooded creatures are in general less intelligent, so I think civilised creatures such as the Sligs would have to be warm blooded.

And Oddling, are you aware you can set fewer than 4 post options, instead of filling the surplus ones up with garbage?
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