Body Warmth

[cybercg]

I was watching TV the other evening with three miniature dogs and Pleo asleep on my lap, shoulder and chest (the dogs have somewhat conditionally accepted Pleo). Wouldn't it be great if Pleo generated body heat like the dogs? That, of course, would eat battery life, but what if Pleo's skin was a material or combined with a material layer that reflected body heat? Even if Pleo reflected my own body heat, it would make it/him seem even more real and an even better companion. I will be glad to beta test!

Thanks for creating Pleo.

[degers]

Haha, believe me I can feel Pleo getting hot as I play with him, his battery and the motors provide ample heat! :)

[girl4God]

I am glad he doesn't because in the summer it gets easily over 100 degrees almost everyday! I wouldn't want to hold my Pleo here if it was hot!

[Themiles]

Body warmth would only be realistic by animals that are warm blooded. Since no one can say if a dinosaur is a warm blooded animal, I think it's ok.
Plus, he does get quite warm during play. After exploring for a while I like cuddling with him because he's so warm.

[fancyfont]

Just a little fact. Cold blooded animals need to get their heat from the sun. Most likely dinosaurs in the coldest, least sunny days of the planet, were warm blooded.:)
When I had an iguana,(lizard) he would be very cold in the morning but went to a window with lots of sunshine to warm up. He was then able to move around better and eat.
I've noticed the same with Peeky. He needs to warm up a tiny bit before he really wants to play. When the battery is first turned on, he just wants to go back to sleep.:)

[Falseprophet666]

Most contemporary evidence suggests that dinosaurs were warm blooded. For one thing, every dinosaur bone found is hollow, like a birds. Additionally, many drameosaurids are found with feather indentations in the stone. There have also been many tests where paleontologists have taken Maisaurid (not just Maisaurus, the entire class) footprints and checked the distance with a calculated time and figured how big and fast their hearts would have to be, and they deduced that they would need to have a large, warm heart to move the way they did. Look at the velociraptors. Although smaller then they were in Jurassic Park, they would have had to move fast, and not just in short spurts like iguanas or chameleons.