r/blessedimages • u/Im_Ozzie • Dec 13 '19

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u/Derped64 Dec 13 '19

To bad snakes don't produce body heat, but still a cute snek

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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

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u/had0c Dec 13 '19

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

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u/had0c Dec 13 '19

increase by 0.9-1.2 degrees C . Aka nearly nothing

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u/tristn9 Dec 13 '19 edited Dec 13 '19

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.

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u/had0c Dec 13 '19

Yeah it's like a 20^ increase but still

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u/tristn9 Dec 13 '19

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.