What is endothermy?

What is endothermy? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) A form of thermoregulation in which heat is generated by the organism's metabolism
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The timing of endothermy in the development of altrical birds.
However, the bone microstructure indicates rapid growth, as in sauropods and extant mammals, which suggests endothermy.
Some dinosaurs may have been so endowed, and although they seem to have possessed the cardiovascular system necessary for endothermy, that capacity does not conclusively prove that they were endothermic.
Plateosaurus apparently represents an early stage in the development of endothermy, in which endothermy was decoupled from developmental plasticity.
It is clear that endothermy need not be evoked in order to explain apparently stable temperatures in medium-sized dinosaurs living at midlatitudes.
Toward the end of the reign of dinosaurs, some animals, the future mammals and birds, evolved endothermy.

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