Why do most living beings give off body heat?
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The same reason why your car gets hot and needs cooled down. Everything requires energy. You need energy for every beat of your heart. We take in the chemical energy stored in the food we eat and convert it to motion. That conversion can’t be 100% efficient so a small portion is lost as heat energy. If every single process in the animal body was 100% efficient, we’d have a body temperature close to the temperature of the air around us.
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