Summary:
- Mammals can generate and conserve heat when it’s cold outside.
- They can also lose heat when they become overheated.
- Mammals have several ways of generating and conserving heat, such as a high metabolic rate and hair to trap heat.
- Animals with fur use panting instead of sweating to lose body heat.
- Evaporation of water from the tongue and other moist surfaces of the mouth and throat uses heat and helps cool the body.
- Sweating wets the skin, and when it evaporates, it cools theBody.