Re: can of worms

[augwhite@neosoft.com (Toby White)]

>-----Original Message--From: Dave (as "Colette H. Adams") Date: 30 March
>1998 09:16
>
>While there's a lot I don't understand about thermoregulation, for what it's
>worth, I generally agreed with what you said.  However, I feel . . .
>
>> . . . the air temperature must be higher than the animal's body
>temperature for heat to flow into it. <
>
>may be misleading in the case where an animal is sunbathing in cold air
>(consider alpine marmots).

Consider also the car in the parking lot that heats up to 120 F. on an 90 F.
day  (for y'all who are Yankees, substitute 90 and 60; 30 and 20 for the
Centigrade world).  Heat flow depends on much more than ambient temperature,
or even termperature differential.

  --Toby White