Do you ever wonder how animals adapt to different environment? Whether to keep warm in the cold, or keep cool in the scorching temperature. Well vertebrates, mammals, and birds are master at maintaining homeostasis. They are warm-blooded animals generating their own body heat. This has enabled many mammals and birds to occupy much of the Earth today. Different animals can either be warm-blooded or cold-blooded. Birds and mammals are warm blooded while the rest of the animal kingdom is cold-blooded. Mammal’s body temperature ranges to 97 °F to 103 °F; bird’s body temperature averages to 105 °F. Cold-blooded animals however cannot maintain a constant body temperature. If it is 50 °F outside then their body temperature will drop to 50 °F. That will keep happening whenever the temperatures outside changes, so making the animal as well change their body temperature. Generating energy is the upmost important for warm-blooded animals to have a constant temperature. Mammals and birds need to consume more food and energy rather than cold-blooded animals. They heat they lose is proportional to their surface area of their body, so they can produce …show more content…
Animals like bears, skunks, and groundhogs hibernate in the winter. Bears usually start hibernating from October to April. During hibernation their body temperature drops, breathing rate slows down, and as well their heart rate drops down. They can hibernate because they can rely on the fats they been gaining in the summer and the fall months this is the same for most animals that hibernate. Cold-blooded animals need less fat because of less energy required. The cells of cold-blooded animals like frogs go though osmosis. The water freezes outside the cell causing water to move out. The glucose outside the cell begins to move inside the cell to reach equilibrium. The high concentration of solutes gives the capability for frogs to survive at extreme cold