What are advantages of being cold blooded?

Answer 1

Any animal that cannot regulate its own body temperature is "coldblooded", another term is exothermic. Since this includes everything from single celled animals through large reptiles the only major characteristic that defines them is their inability maintain their body temperature without the use of the environment.

Answer 2

there advantage is that they are used to the ups and down of the climax so they are likely to not die because of the climate where as the warm blooded animals rely on their body systems to stay cool or warm and if the warm blooded animals get too hot they can get sick.

Answer 3

It takes a lot of metabolic energy for a warm blooded animal to maintain a constant body temperature. Thus, warm blooded animals need significantly more food for their body size than similarly sized cold blooded animals do. Obviously, not requiring as much food can be an advantage to a cold blooded animal, because during times of scarcity, they are less likely to starve.

Answer 4

Cold blooded animals are known as being ectothermic. This means that they have blood that changes temperature to match the environment around them.

Answer 5

Characteristics of cold blooded animals are: They like to be out in the sun. They will most likely have scales. Will probably bite you.

Answer 6

they can not maintain their own body temperature and they temperature is the same as their surroundings

Answer 7

because you could never go in the sun!

Answer 8

become dormant in cooler time of the year