How To Use Homeothermic In A Sentence
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While hibernation during the winter is found in a few arctic mammals such as the Arctic ground squirrel (Spermophilus parryii), most homeothermic animals are active throughout the year.
General characteristics of arctic species and their adaptations in the context of changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation levels
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Theirs was a high homeothermic metabolism, with corresponding energy demands.
A Circus of Hells
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General anesthesia inactivates the body's temperature regulating mechanism and transforms the homeothermic body into a poikilothermic body - one that is altered by the temperature of the environment.
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Homeothermic mammals regulate their body temperatures, and hence their energy expenditure, to a relatively constant and fairly high rate.
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Moreover, they are truly homeothermic, requiring maintenance of a constant internal body temperature that is considerably above environmental temperature.
Climate change and reindeer nomadism in Finnmark, Norway
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Reptiles are poikilothermic, which means that they can not regulate heat internally (as opposed to birds and mammals which are homeothermic).
Reptile
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One then makes an empirical calibration of running speed with temperature using some human runners, and goes on to construct a global temperature proxy by timing groups of wild-type human runners without knowing their nutritional status, their health profile, their homeothermic capacity or ability to sweat, their susceptibility to heat stroke, or the twitch rate of their muscles.
Treydte, Moberg, Soon and Baliunas « Climate Audit
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Being homeothermic, and living on a planet whose slight axial tilt makes for less temperature variation than on Earth, Jovians rarely had any practical need to dress.
Three Worlds to Conquer
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Reptiles are poikilothermic, which means that they can not regulate heat internally (as opposed to birds and mammals which are homeothermic).
Reptile
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General anesthesia inactivates the body's temperature-regulating mechanism and transforms the homeothermic body into a poikilothermic body - one that is altered by the temperature of the environment.
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Reproductive effort may increase with high food abundance, especially for homeothermic endotherms, due to increased reproductive allocations and relatively stable metabolizable energy intake.
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The homeothermic capacity of chicks varied as a function of brood size, age, and air temperature.
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He's homeothermic; his females give live birth and nurse their young.
Ensign Flandry
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At about the same time, they become homeostatic and homeothermic, as mammals are.
A Case Of Conscience
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A large one, homeothermic, to judge from the infrared, holding still a short ways off.
The Queen of Air and Darkness
