Ectotherm

... because they usually don't stay motionless among green plants at day. I will explain this. Because they often have a low metabolic rate, small ectotherm animals such as lizards or insects spend a big deal of time motionless or moving slowly, either to escape from predator's view, to sit and ...

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... because they usually don't stay motionless among green plants at day. I will explain this. Because they often have a low metabolic rate, small ectotherm animals such as lizards or insects spend a big deal of time motionless or moving slowly, either to escape from predator's view, to sit and ...

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... have varying body temperatures. Endotherms are able to produce heat internally (though, if I've learned correctly some animals classified as ectotherms do as well, but are not considered endotherms due to relatedness; or maybe I'm just confusing a taxanomic grouping with the term...) Ectotherms ...

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I'm confused when it comes to defining homeotherms, heterotherms, endotherms, and ectotherms. I've done some Googling and looking through my university textbook to try and distinguish between homeothermic and endothermic (and heterothermic vs. ectothermic) but I ...

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An ectotherm is an animal in which the internal body temperature is the same as the temperature of its surroundings. Fish, amphibians, and reptiles are ectotherms. Ectotherms can not control their internal body temperature ...

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