Chapter 132: Variable Temperature or Heterothermal Route?

The Minions Mountains, among the Dragon's Lair.

The dragon's nest building on the surface has been gradually erected.

Although it was only a simple construction, it may be easier to survive this winter than if it was not completely open and slightly sheltered.

The swamp full of corpses and undead spirits, after paying attention to it for a while, still did not notice any changes, and did not pay attention to it again.

War.

War, without a doubt, goes hand in hand with death.

The earth has long been accustomed to the death of nest dragons.

When the anti-crow was found, it was nearly ten kilometers away from its original location.

Dixing wasn't sure if it was found by the Yuanlong after it flew so far on its own, and then sent it some distance, or if it was sent so far by the Yuanlong.

But......

Earth's gaze turned to the location of the anti-crow.

It was standing next to a giant tree, staring at an abyssal dragon digging and carrying dirt.

The anti-crow was obviously very concerned about the abyssal dragon that rescued it.

However, the abyssal dragon is already dead.

Instead of splitting the skeleton of the Abyssal Dragon to hatch more Abyssal Dragons, the Earth Walk made an exception and used its entire corpse as a single material to hatch the Abyssal Dragon in a completely cloned way.

With the expansion of the dragon's nest, the number of inherent dragons has grown, and the social structure among the nest dragons has gradually formed.

Led by the dragons, there are already a group of nest dragons who have learned to communicate with other nest dragons, learned knowledge, and learned all kinds of things under his cramming teaching.

"Death" is also a topic that society must experience.

How to look at death, how to look at the dead, and the values related to funeral culture will become more and more important in the future.

Does he need to give "glory" to the dead nest dragon?

It seems like a no-brainer.

However, once the problem is linked to "incubation", to "resurrection", then ......

Should the newborn nest dragon, which used the corpse of the former as the material and "returned to the original land and was born again", inherit everything from the former?

Wealth, though not yet, any private property, such as weapons held by some dragonmen.

Status, not only the status he bestows, but also the social status, their friends, comrades-in-arms, companions, should they be treated as the same nest dragon?

If it is, then, as you can imagine, there will be a lot of ethical problems.

If you choose no, how should the saying of "born from the dragon's nest" be corrected and supplemented.

Indeed, it may be a little early to think about this.

However, this is indeed a problem that he needs to pay attention to.

Perhaps, you can start with a name.

For example, the Abyssal Dragon that died before was a Parker's Dragon, and its name, in order to make it easier to identify itself, its name was naturally "Parker's Dragon".

Well, after such a "resurrection", it should not be the same as the original Parker's -

The ground bank chose a simple and straightforward method - adding a digital sign.

Parker II? Parker's II?

If it was born by hatching a dead nest dragon, then it would be called II.

If it is bred, it is the second generation.

Although the second-generation nest dragon has not yet been formed, Dixing does not feel that it is too early to think about this.

In fact, several nest dragons are already very close.

It wasn't surprising that they lay eggs one day—after all, when they hatched, they were adults.

However, compared to these, Dixing's gaze fell on the other Yuanlong.

Underground cavern after cave has been dug out.

The torrential rain before didn't leave any water in these caves—

Instead, because of the cold, the rain turned the ground into frozen ground and made the cave a little stronger.

But the earth walk didn't think it was anything to be happy about.

Not to mention that because of thermal inertia, the temperature underground will be higher than that above ground in winter, let's just say that where there are creatures living for a long time, the temperature will naturally be higher.

Water that doesn't seep away in time may also be harmful.

However, there shouldn't be much of a problem.

Nest dragons are not their dinosaur "ancestors", they have fantastic energy, they are stronger.

In the underground caves, there are also a lot of sun-dried grass and wood chips, which can be used as nests for them.

In the winter, sleep directly on the ground, even if the fantasy creatures can resist, they will consume additional energy, and the earth will not be stupid enough to let them rest directly on the ground.

"Nest Dragon" - it seems that this title is quite appropriate.

However, there is more to the earth than meets the eye, he has to think about it......

Do you want some nest dragons to evolve labels such as "hibernation" and "ectothermic animal".

Especially the swamp dragon.

Although it is hotter underwater than on the water, it is also more expensive.

When winter arrives, the growth of plants has basically stopped, and the animals are becoming less and less.

Reducing energy consumption and allowing the Nest Dragons to give them node energy when they don't have to act is also a solution.

As for why you chose the swamp dragon first...... Because, the fish in the pond by the river have sunk to the bottom and slept forever.

Oh, it's either dead, or literally "long sleep".

The fish of this world hibernate.

This made the earth line a little surprised.

Because, in the previous life, the organisms that lived in the environment with a fast heat conduction rate such as water did not have a high body temperature, and their body temperature approached the water temperature for a long time, and at the same time, they were all ectotherms.

In other words, homeotherms are the minority of creatures in previous lives.

However, even if you are a homeothermic animal, it does not mean that you will not change your body temperature.

When homeothermic animals sleep and rest, their body temperature will also decrease slightly, which is not strictly said, because they do not need to support activities such as limb movements, do not need to "warm up", and only need to maintain the temperature of homeostasis in the body.

For "homeothermic" organisms that hibernate, the drop in body temperature is even more obvious, and they are even called "isotherms".

However, different hibernating creatures have different temperatures, such as bats mentioned earlier, and even the temperature difference is more than 60 degrees Celsius.

Lowering your body temperature while resting is undoubtedly a good way to save energy.

However, here comes the problem......

According to the observation of the earth, some dinosaurs were inherently heterothermic or mesothermic, and some dinosaurs were homeothermic.

However, after evolution, almost all nest dragons were homeotherms.

As for why......

In addition to the advantages of continuous growth and fast growth, which will not slow down due to low ambient temperature and increase the distribution range, the internal environment of homeothermic animals is more conducive to long-term exercise energy-consuming behaviors such as thinking.

With the control of variables, turn the crocodile into a homeothermic animal, it will be more combative, it will become smarter, but it will also consume more energy.

Of course, it is impossible for the earth to let the nest dragon go to the route of ectotherms, and if he wants to compromise with resources, he will only choose the route of ectotherms.

What to expand the scale, expand the quantity.

Inexistent.

Food resources are not enough, and I can't expand if I want to.

Di Xing looked at the busy nest dragons in the dragon's nest, and couldn't help but turn his head to look in the other direction.

The problem of development must be solved by development.

Open source and reduce expenditure, open source and reduce expenditure.

It's not okay to just think about how to throttle, you have to open source.

Enlarge! Sheet!

With the fluctuation of blood energy, the anti-crow, which was curled up and kept warm by feathers, raised its head from the nest reluctantly.

ps: The end of the third watch, sleep.