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ear temperture

skgreene

Warren Scout
Can you tell how hot or cold a bun is by how cold or hot their ears are? i just wander cause my friend uses ths method wth her ponies and horses?
 
To a certain extent possibly (more round the insides as already said), but I don't think it's very accurate. One of the bun's mechanisms for keeping its core body warm is to reduce the blood flow to its ears...so cold ears can actually be a sign that the rabbit's heat conserving mechanisms are actually working properly to keep the main body of the bun warm :) Of course a hypothermic bun is also likely to have cold ears, so it's not really very easy to work out whether it's significant or not, you'd still have to rely on the overall context :)
 
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