Essay On Hypothermia

Endothermy has a lot of benefits and costs compared to ectotherms. Endotherms depend on their bodies metabolism to produce enough heat to raise their body temperature. Endotherms balance heat production with heat loss. Each endotherm has a range of environmental temperatures that keeps its body stable and it does this by regulating the heat loss and heat production. They regulate their body heat by vaping their metabolic rate and change its rate of heat loss by adjusting their insulation. Another way to produce heat is the specific dynamic action, the thermic effect of food. The added heat after eating is caused by the energy used to breakdown molecules and synthesizing proteins, this result also varies on what type of food is being broken …show more content…
Some birds use hypothermia to prepare for migration. A week before birds migrate, the hypothermia process begins. The energy saved during hypothermia reduces the rate of fats used during migration and the reduced the speed of which fats are replenished following migration. Furthermore, Rest-phase hypothermia is used by both birds and mammals. Rest-hypothermia is the drop of temperature that the animal is not active. The difference of birds and mammals is the time of day their body is at rest. At night, birds body will be rest and during the day, many small animals will be at rest. (Nocturnal). Torpor is another word for rest-phase hypothermia. Many animals reduce their body temperatures when low temperature arise or when there is a limited food supply. Torpor is essential to many animals because it enormous saves a source of energy and water. Deep torpor is a comatose condition where voluntary motor functions are greatly reduced. Some mammals can come out of torpor using heat production from their brown fat. Hibernate is similar to torpor but hibernation is a long period of time during the winter, but instead of both birds and mammals using it, only mammals hibernate. Mainly only large animals