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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5493188" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>^^^^^</p><p>This.</p><p></p><p>The farther north you go the larger the species gets. It's about heat retention for the brutally cold winters. As an animal gets larger in body mass, their surface area (square inches of skin) does not increase as fast. This produces an animal with great body mass for heat retention but not that much more square inches of surface area to lose heat. It is just the opposite in hot environments, like South TX. The deer are very "spindly" so that high amount of surface area can cool the low body-weight animal more efficiently.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5493188, member: 17"] ^^^^^ This. The farther north you go the larger the species gets. It's about heat retention for the brutally cold winters. As an animal gets larger in body mass, their surface area (square inches of skin) does not increase as fast. This produces an animal with great body mass for heat retention but not that much more square inches of surface area to lose heat. It is just the opposite in hot environments, like South TX. The deer are very "spindly" so that high amount of surface area can cool the low body-weight animal more efficiently. [/QUOTE]
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