• Question: Why do some animals need cold weathers and some animals need hot weathers?

    Asked by 647cmte47 to Cat?, Elaine, Helena, Iain, Gabriel on 11 Mar 2016.
    • Photo: Olusegun Gabriel Fawole

      Olusegun Gabriel Fawole answered on 11 Mar 2016:

      By nature, some animals are cold-blooded while some are warm-blooded.

    • Photo: Helena Quilter

      Helena Quilter answered on 18 Mar 2016:

      As Gabriel said some animals are cold blooded so they need a lot of warmth from the sun. Most mammals are warm blooded but animals like reptiles, and fish, become hotter and colder depending on what the temperature is. Have you ever seen pictures of lizard basking in the Sun? That’s why! When the sun is out heir bodies soak up the heat and become warmer!

      Animals have also adapted (changed) to suit their environments too – for example polar bears wouldn’t be very happy to be living in the Sahara desert! They have thick fur so they would be way too hot! Polar bears are perfectly designed to live in the cold of the Arctic.

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