Hot
Hot underfoot!
Phew! These hot lamps make you want to strip off… But thankfully it is not dangerously hot in here! Prolonged exposure to temperatures over 42 °C can be fatal to man.
However, some organisms can survive in extreme temperatures of 120 °C or more! Come and discover these masters of the heat … the journey will be enough to get you sweating! And how do other animals cool down? Put your hand in an ostrich’s beak and discover its inbuilt air-conditioner. Is it getting too hot underfoot? Let’s see if you can dance like a desert lizard!
- Fact file 1: the Shovel-snouted lizard
- Fact file 2: the Ostrich
