Small mammals need a relatively high metabolic rate compared to large mammals to generate enough heat to stay warm, as they lose heat to their surroundings more quickly due to their higher surface area to volume ratio.
Pequenos mamíferos precisam de uma taxa metabólica relativamente alta em comparação com mamíferos maiores para gerar calor suficiente para se manterem aquecidos, pois perdem calor para o ambiente mais rapidamente devido à sua maior relação superfície-volume.
| Front | Why do small mammals need a relatively high metabolic rate compared to a large mammal |
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| Back | Small mammals need to generate enough heat to stay warm as they are losing a lot to there surroundings. |
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