Re: can of worms

["John V Jackson" <jjackson@interalpha.co.uk>]

-----Original Message--From: Dave (as "Colette H. Adams") Date: 30 March
1998 09:16

While there's a lot I don't understand about thermoregulation, for what it's
worth, I generally agreed with what you said.  However, I feel . . .

> . . . the air temperature must be higher than the animal's body
temperature for heat to flow into it. <

may be misleading in the case where an animal is sunbathing in cold air
(consider alpine marmots).


John V Jackson    jjackson@interalpha.co.uk


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