Researchers measured the body temperature of an individual western terrestrial g

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Researchers measured the body temperature of an individual western terrestrial garter snake (Snake; orange line) throughout a day in its natural habitat. They simultaneously quantified the range of operative environmental temperatures available to it using thermal mimics. The minimum and maximum body temperatures available to the snake at any given time are represented as Tomin (blue line) and Tomax (red line), respectively: 70 Thamnophis elegans 50h 40 30h 20 10 Snake 10 0 3 69 12 15 18 21 24 Hour of day

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There are many factors which are directly responsible for the thermal influence and deals with the body temperature of a snake. the factors which contradict the thermal situation is greatly happens due to the environmental as well as the habitat condition. in this problem it is given that there is a snake whose body temperature is ploted on graph as in the format of temperature versus hours of day.so lets take it as follow-

2) The theoritical maximum body temperature of a snake can be determined by the help of it habitat condition amd the body behaviour of it. to determine the maximum temperature theoritically then we should not analyse it with the graph shown here. the theoritical analysis give the following determinations that 18 degree during 5 pm. it is because to the fact that at this time it catches the great numbers of prey. it is only possible when it is in agressive behaviour and have the maximum body temperature.

3) The recorded data suggest that the snake regulate body temperature effectively via both the factors like behaviour and the metabolic heat productions. it is because we can estimate and analyse the body heating and thermal activity of snake by it action and the reaction with the surrounding like in environment. so correct option is "c".

4) The thermal environment potentially sets a minimum limit of snake body size due to surface area to volume ratio constraint that limit the rate at which snake can gain heat from the environment. if this not happen in the body of a snake than it may possible that the temperature will fall to a certain level from where it become difficult for a snake live and catch prey sustainly. we have estimeted this by the action of the snake body behaviour during the catching of the prey.

5) From the concept of the psychological analysis on the behaviour of snake then it was found that the psycological behavior of a snake is expected to increase to a maximum and then decreases. it is happens due to the fact of increament of agrassiveness during the prey catching and after eating the hunger get fullfill and hence decrease the performance

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