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Re: ECTOthermic feathers?
> > I know this is tangential (but I think of interest in the
endo-exothermic
> > wars)... has any exothermic animal ever had feathers?
>
> 1) It is "ectothermic" for cold-bloods: that is, "outside heat" (as
opposed
> to "endothermic" = "inside heat"). Exothermic would be heat-projectors,
> like Gojira or Smaug the Golden... :-)
In English (in most instances that I've seen). In German the correct
expression, and the only that I've seen so far, is "exotherm".