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Uncommon card · Nature
Endotherm, an Uncommon card
An endotherm is an organism that maintains its body at a metabolically favorable temperature, largely by the use of heat released by its internal bodily functions instead of relying almost purely on ambient heat.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Nature
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 36,000
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Endotherm quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Endotherm card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Only birds and mammals are considered truly endothermic groups of ______.
Answer
animals. Only birds and mammals are considered truly endothermic groups of animals. From the Endotherm article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Bifidobacterium. Bifidobacterium 69 · Endotherm 65 · Judaean Mountains 60 · Beaucarnea recurvata 55 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Such internally generated heat is mainly an incidental product of the animal's routine metabolism, but under conditions of excessive cold or low activity an endotherm might apply special mechanisms adapted specifically to heat production.
- Examples include special-function muscular exertion such as shivering, and uncoupled oxidative metabolism, such as within brown adipose tissue.
- Only birds and mammals are considered truly endothermic groups of animals.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Endotherm article was read about 36,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Endotherm
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Endotherm (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Arno / Coen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
