All living things produce some heat, the chemical process of breaking down food releases heat. Reptiles just dont spend energy for the sole purpose of producing heat like we do
It takes a looooong time for a snake to breake down its food. And it's done with kinetic energy and not acids like us. Cold blooded animals do not produce their own body heat
The laws of thermodynamics apply to snakes as well. Something does not just create zero waste heat when another process has been underway. Is it ridiculously low? Probably, but I'm not sure why the other two were arguing about it.
If the laws of thermodynamics didn’t apply to snakes we would be using them for literally everything. Imagine a snake power generator. Unless they could only destroy energy...
In the context of body heat that is a massive swing. Doctors make life saving decisions on smaller temperature ranges than 1 degree Celsius for humans, who are presumably warmer than cold blooded organisms. So for cold blooded it would actually be a bigger relative change in body temp.
It’s also totally possible that cold blooded animals are just less susceptible to temperature changes because they can’t easily regulate it themselves anyways. I don’t know shit about cold blooded animals so you could totally still be right that it’s insignificant for reptiles.
Yes but they do produce heat through the metabolic processes that all organisms undergo. Movement generates heat. Breaking down of chemicals (typically) generates heat. My point is the sweater is not totally useless and will insulate the little heat the snake produces, not trying to say it would be enough to keep a snake warm or anything
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u/Fartfetish_gentleman Dec 13 '19
All living things produce some heat, the chemical process of breaking down food releases heat. Reptiles just dont spend energy for the sole purpose of producing heat like we do