Warm-Blooded in Cold Water: How Dolphins Regulate Their Body Temperature
Dolphins live in one of the most thermally challenging environments on earth. Despite being warm-blooded mammals that need to maintain a stable internal temperature close to that of a human, they spend every minute of their lives in water that pulls heat away from the body roughly 25 times faster than air does. The biology behind how Hawaii's spinner dolphins handle that challenge every hour of every day is one of the most elegant adaptation stories in the ocean.


