by animals, the terms warm-blooded and cold-blooded have been deprecated in the scientific field. In general, warm-bloodedness refers to three separate...

Warm Blood may refer to: Warmbloods, a middle-weight horse type and breed Warm Blood, album by Carol Grimes "Warm Blood", song by Icelandic band Seabear...

warmblood was coined to represent a mixing of cold blooded and hot blooded breeds.: 523 : 231  Cold blooded is a generic term meaning a heavy boned even-tempered...

of warm-blooded predators rather than cold-blooded ones. Birds are warm-blooded and evolved from dinosaurs; therefore, a change to a warm-blooded metabolism...

comedy/thriller Cold Blooded (film), a 2012 Canadian crime thriller Cold-blooded, a person or act said to be lacking in conscience Cold-blood (horse), a horse...

the hottest blood. In reality, horses of all breeds are warm-blooded mammals and have the same body temperature. The notion of a "hot-blooded" horse is...

impossible for cold-blooded animals to keep warm. The rapid rate of speciation and evolution found in dinosaurs is typical of warm-blooded animals and atypical...

of ecological niches and food sources. Warm-blooded animals could have survived in habitats where cold-blooded competitors struggled due to temperature...

animal with a thermoregulatory strategy intermediate to cold-blooded ectotherms and warm-blooded endotherms. Mesotherms have two basic characteristics: Elevation...

categories of temperature control utilized by animals, the terms warm-blooded and cold-blooded have been deprecated as scientific terms. Various patterns of...

crocodilians are cold-blooded. This raises some questions: If dinosaurs were to a large extent "warm-blooded", when and how fast did warm-bloodedness evolve in their...

indicating that dinosaurs may have been active warm-blooded animals, rather than sluggish cold-blooded lizard-like reptilians as had been the prevailing...

greater speed in movement than ectothermy (cold-bloodedness)—ectothermic animals can move as fast as warm-blooded animals of the same size and build when the...

toxoplasmosis. Found worldwide, T. gondii is capable of infecting virtually all warm-blooded animals,: 1  but felids are the only known definitive hosts in which...

features, which are very important for active warm-blooded creatures, but of little apparent use to cold-blooded aquatic ambush predators that spend the vast...

smooth or fluffy coats that did not resemble bird feathers. They were warm-blooded (endothermic), active animals. The respiratory system had efficient unidirectional...

known for the way in which its larvae (maggots) eat the living tissue of warm-blooded animals. It is present in the New World tropics. There are five species...

and team examined the nasal cavities of ectotherm (cold-blooded) or endotherm (warm-blooded) species, in order to evaluate the thermoregulatory physiology...

rhythm, but it has not yet been determined whether the systems of cold-blooded vertebrates were slowed as a result of decreased activity in the SCN or...

This is unique among fish as most fish are entirely cold blooded or are capable of warming only some parts of their bodies. Two living species were traditionally...

biological characteristic of warm-bloodedness evolved separately in the ancestors of mammals and the ancestors of birds; "warm-blooded animals" is therefore...

the connective tissues around the gonads and the digestive tract. Cold-blooded vertebrates can exhibit an assortment of clinical signs. Amphibians may...

However, it can infect most types of warm-blooded animals, including humans. Diagnosis is typically by testing blood for antibodies or by testing the amniotic...

the genus Escherichia that is commonly found in the lower intestine of warm-blooded organisms. Most E. coli strains are harmless, but some serotypes such...

vegetation; they are universally present in large numbers in the feces of warm-blooded animals as they are known to inhabit the gastrointestinal system. While...

Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying animals. Birds may also refer to: The Birds (play), an ancient...

body shape and way of life. For example, some fast-swimming fish are warm-blooded, while some slow-swimming fish have abandoned streamlining in favour...

Whales and dolphins are mammals and warm-blooded. Of ichthyosaurs it was traditionally assumed that they were cold-blooded, being reptiles. However, since...

civets, hyenas, mongooses). Carnivorans are one group of the hairy, warm-blooded, nursing members of the class Mammalia, which are classified among animals...

hunting for warm-blooded creatures at night. Aside from their eyes, rattlesnakes are able to detect thermal radiation emitted by warm-blooded organisms...