02-24-2021, 12:26 PM | #21 | |
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02-24-2021, 01:27 PM | #22 | |
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These seem to be two different questions.
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02-24-2021, 01:31 PM | #23 | |
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The actual question is "does the animal maintain a healthy temperature", for which one must consider both heat gained and heat lost. You can't make a financial budget if you don't know how much income you have, and you can't make an energy budget if you don't consider how much energy is coming in. EDIT: The conclusion seems to be that metabolism, and therefore heat generated, increases at roughly the same rate as surface area, so (assuming heat lost also increases with surface area) larger animals don't need to further decrease heat loss to maintain their temperature- which conclusion appears to be empirically supported by the source I quoted upthread. EDITEDIT: Ectotherms, who gain a substantial portion of their body heat from the environment, operate under a different regime, but they also don't seem to be relevant to this (scaling-humanoid-inspired) discussion, unless we are trying to work out how to dress a komodo dragon. EDITEDITEDIT: The answer to what a komodo dragon wears is, of course, "anything it wants".
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02-24-2021, 01:45 PM | #24 | |
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02-24-2021, 01:47 PM | #25 |
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Is it? It seems to me that the quantity of heat output over a given unit of time should scale linearly with the amount of energy in the food that must be consumed during that same time, unless larger animals turn more of their food calories into heat than smaller animals (and as I understand it, the opposite is more likely to be true). As the amount of fuel consumed scales as the square of height (and thus generally as the 2/3 power of weight), so too should the heat output.
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