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Animals curl into a ball, when they feel very cold. Why?

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When animals feel cold, they curl their bodies into the ball so as to decrease the surface area of their bodies. As total energy radiated by a body varies directly as the surface area of the body, the loss of heat due to radiation would be reduced.

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