RE: Temperatures on Earth
November 27, 2014 at 7:42 pm
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2014 at 7:50 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(November 27, 2014 at 7:33 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(November 27, 2014 at 6:42 pm)lifesagift Wrote: But they breed more effieciently than we do?Do they? By what metrics? I'm a big fan of the "quantity is a different kind of quality" line of thought...it just doesn't seem to be working for the rabbits. Efficiency is another one of those things that I'd call a "metric in a vacuum", like a higher temp or wings as they apply to human beings.
Rabbit metablic temperature is almost the same as humans, within about 1 degree. A human running rabbit temperatures would be barely feverish. A human running typical bird metabolic temperature would be seriously ill and on the verge of brain death.
Amongst mammals only the monotremes, the most primitive mammal group still surviving and most distant mammalian relations to placentals, has substantially different metablic temperatures from placental mammals. A human running the same temperature as a platypus would be unconscious and deeply hypothermic.
