To enable man, and other warm-blooded animals, to maintain this equilibrium of temperature under such extremes of heat and cold, naturally suggests two inquiries: 1st.
His heart has two ventricles, and you would think that he ought to be included in the class of warm-blooded animals.
Well, cold-blooded animals are, so to speak, penny doll animals, by comparison with ourselves.
Effect of poisons on the heart of Cold-blooded Animals.
This consequence would certainly necessarily follow, was their nervous system perfectly analogous to the sympathetic of warm-blooded animals.
Whether, like the warm-blooded animals, they generally possess that of resisting heat by perspiration, &c.
Thus a gradual ascent is made to the circulating system of the vertebrate and red-blooded animals.
Of the lower warm-blooded animals, there are some that appear to be cold-blooded at birth.
As stated above, the temperature of warm-blooded animals is maintained with but slight variation.
The Water Viper lives for the most part in the vicinity of rivers, and feeds upon fish, but also devours small warm-blooded animals.
Fish, as a rule, are more speedily digested than is the flesh of warm-blooded animals.
Even after death it continues for some time, longer in cold-blooded than in warm-blooded animals, on account of the difference in temperature, thus showing this property of the spinal cord.
We also know that among fishes there is no uniform adult size, as there is in case of warm-blooded animals (birds and mammals).
The fish here has an advantage over the warm-blooded animals, for he does not need to generate heat to keep his body at a constant temperature.
We know that the rate of growth is in no way uniform, as is the case with our warm-blooded animals.
Thus Metchnikoff[36] and his pupils have been able to show that the toxins introduced into certain cold-blooded animals (Oryetes nasicorius) may remain for several months without alteration in their circulation.
In certain cold-blooded animals, as the turtle, contraction has been known to take place for several days after the head has been cut off.
The warm-blooded animals do not differ in the tissues, or microscopic structures, that compose them, but only in the amount and arrangement of these tissues.
It differs from skeletal in not depending on nervous stimulation to make it contract; the heart can be cut clean out of the body and will go on beating for a short time; in cold-blooded animals, like frogs or turtles, for a long time.
That it is a great advantage to the body to be warm all of the time is clear when we compare the possibilities of our lives with those of cold-blooded animals, like insects or frogs.
In cold-blooded animals, like fish or frogs, muscles become sluggish when they are cold.
It therefore has a very variable temperature as compared with the almost constant temperature of warm-blooded animals.
Some cold-blooded animals, however, may be cooled to 0 deg.
In most cold-blooded animals, like reptiles, the temperature is normally only a little above that of the atmosphere, the two rising and falling together.
The third part refers to warm-blooded animals; and the fourth part of the work is dedicated to the influence of the physical agents upon the human race and vertebrated animals.
Spallanzani found that the exposure of cold-blooded animals to the air was attended with exudation of carbon, a phenomenon similar to that of respiration.
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