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COLD-BLOODED ANTS: A trail of ants moves slowly on cold mornings
because the ants are cold-blooded.

COLD-BLOODED ANTS: Some ants move slowly when it’s cold because all
the molecules in their body are moving quicker because they are cold.

COLD-BLOODED ANTS: Ants are cold blooded. This doesn’t mean their
blood is cold. It means that they don’t keep their bodies at a steady temperature
like we do. Our bodies are heated internally. Their body’s temperature depends
on the temperature outside their body. (They can warm their bodies, however, by
the movements of their muscles).

COLD-BLOODED ANTS: A polymer is a molecule that causes other
molecules to react faster. This could mean that it helps to tear molecules apart or
it could mean that it helps to put them together.

COLD-BLOODED ANTS: If an insect is cold, enzyme molecules in them
would move slower and cause molecules to react slower. EVERYTHING would
slow down. Cold is slower moving molecules

COLD-BLOODED ANTS: Snakes and lizards are cold-blooded. You often
see snakes or lizards sitting on rocks trying to warm themselves up.

MOTH FLIGHT MUSCLES: Chameleons are cold blooded. They have to wait
until they warm up to fire their tongue out of their mouths quickly.

MOTH FLIGHT MUSCLES: Before flight, the moth needs to warm itself to
above 86 degrees Fahrenheit for it to be able to fly.

MOTH FLIGHT MUSCLES: A moth will simultaneously contract all the flight
muscles in its abdomen. This action generates heat. Without this warmth, the
moth would be completely unable to fly!

MOTH FLIGHT MUSCLES: During the flight, the thorax of the moth can
overheat from the contracting of wing muscles. To help keep the moth cool, their
“blood” absorbs the excess heat from the thorax and then release it into the air as
it flows through the abdomen. Their abdomen helps cool the insect.