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What does cold-blooded mean?

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But because many species are cold-blooded, some sharks eat only about 2 percent of their body weight each day.
While most mammals and birds show signs of REM sleep, reptiles and other cold-blooded animals do not.
Still, bears are warm-blooded mammals and thus are more similar to humans than are cold-blooded reptiles like the alligators.
Large rocks or a stone wall make great basking spots for these cold-blooded insects.
There is a story about a frog, which, being a cold-blooded creature, adapts its temperature to its surroundings.
For example, one might think that skeletal growth rates would be higher for an endothermic animal than for an ectothermic, or cold-blooded, one.

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