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Categories: Thermoregulation, Animal size, Animal physiology
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gigantothermy  Gigantotherm  Gigantothermia  gigantothermic  Mass homeotherm
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Gigantothermy is a phenomenon with significance in biology and paleontology, whereby large, bulky ectothermic animals are more easily able to maintain a constant, relatively high body temperature than smaller animals by virtue of their smaller surface-area-to-volume ratio. Wikipedia
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Gigantothermy is a phenomenon with significance in biology and paleontology, whereby large, bulky ectothermic animals are more easily able to maintain a constant, relatively high body temperature than smaller animals by virtue of their smaller surface-area-to-volume ratio. Wikipedia
The increased ability of large ectothermic animals to maintain a high body temperature. Wiktionary
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Gigantotherm, Gigantothermia, gigantothermic, Mass homeotherm, Mass homeothermy

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