What makes mammals warm blooded, and other animals not?

Subject: What makes mammals warm blooded, and other animals not?

Date: Fri Jan 5 16:15:27 2001
Posted by Jerry
Grade level: nonaligned School: none
City: kenmore State/Province: WA Country: USA
Area of science: General Biology
ID: 978729327.Gb

Message:


There is no specific heater organ in a mammals body.  Both mammals and say 
lizards eat, digest, metabolize etc.  What is different in a mammals body 
that generates heat.  What is the mechanism that heats the body; some 
exothermic chemical reaction I guess ... but what exactly?  How does it 
work?  Where does it live in the body?

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