Cold-blooded

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Cold-blooded is an informal term for one or more of a group of characteristics that determine an animal's thermophysiology. These include:

• ectothermy, controlling body temperature through external metabolic processes, such as by basking in the sun
• poikilothermy, the ability of an organism to function over a wide internal temperature range
• bradymetabolism, the ability to greatly alter metabolic rate in response to need; for example, animals that hibernate

"Cold blooded" and "Coldblooded" may also refer to:

Music

• Cold Blooded (Rick James album), 1983
  • "Cold Blooded" (song), the title track from the album
• "Coldblooded" (James Brown song), a 1974 funk song
• Coldblooded (album), a 1974 funk album by The Bar-Kays
• "Cold Blooded", a song by Damageplan from the 2004 album New Found Power
• Cold Blooded (EP), a 2013 EP by Datsik

Films

• Coldblooded (film), a 1995 American dark comedy/thriller
• Cold Blooded (film), a 2012 Canadian crime thriller

Other

• A person or act said to be lacking in conscience
• A horse bred for strength and calmness, such as a draft horse

See also

• Cold blood (disambiguation)
• Endotherm (disambiguation)
• In Cold Blood (disambiguation)
• Thermoregulation
• Warm-blooded