Subject: what effect does temperature have on breathing rate?

I understand that lowering the temperature of the external environment will 
slow down the rate of breathing of an organism. However, i do not understand 
the relationship breathing rate has with temperature. I have searched your 
archives and found that temp. affects metabolic rate. But why does it affect 
metabolic rate in the sense that, metabolic rate slows down as the temp. gets 
lower.  why does it do this and what link is there between breathing and 
metabolic rate?

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