• filcuk@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure it would be possible for such large animals, they require a lot more energy to keep the heat up due* to larger skin surface.
    I could be wrong though, happy to be corrected.

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      1 year ago

      Square-cube law would be in effect - for large animals, things that scale with mass or volume outpace things that scale with surface area. Though what result that would have in this case I can’t quite puzzle out.