ectothermy การใช้

• The opposite of endothermy is ectothermy, although there is no absolute or clear separation between the nature of endotherms and ectotherms in general.
• Physiological, anatomical, and developmental features of the crocodilian heart support the paleontological evidence and show that the lineage reverted to ectothermy when it invaded the aquatic, ambush predator niche.
• Modern reptiles exhibit some form of cold-bloodedness ( i . e . some mix of poikilothermy, ectothermy, and bradymetabolism ) so that they have limited physiological means of keeping the body temperature constant and often rely on external sources of heat.
• Cretaceous Paleogene extinction event provides some detail on the speculations about the role that traits like small size, burrowing, swimming, ectothermy v . endothermy, etc . may have played in favoring some groups over others . talk ) 22 : 38, 28 June 2015 ( UTC)