cold-blooded
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Cold-blooded animals, including reptiles like snakes and lizards, depend on outside sources to control their temperature: For example, basking in the sun to warm up.
From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024
Cold-blooded animals such as the zebrafish, by contrast, cannot do any of these, so they have a different strategy.
From Science Daily • Feb. 1, 2024
"Cold-blooded animals often shut down their metabolism entirely during a tough season, but many endothermic or 'warm-blooded' animals that hibernate frequently reactivate their metabolism during the hibernation period," Whitney explained.
From Fox News • Aug. 30, 2020
Cold-blooded animals like Luca require a heat source to stay alive.
From Washington Times • May 31, 2020
Cold-blooded nerve, otherwise intrepid cheek, is a much admired quality in that land of bluffs and blagues called Rhodesia.
From Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa by Stockley, Cynthia
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